Honest Money, Crypto, and Community: Future of Finance

of Thursday night with Bobby Gray to talk about honest money, crypto, Bitcoin blockchain, all those ecosystem words salad Things that we've come to know and love over the last couple of years. So, cheers to you That SIP number one of my second cup. Let's see if I can wake up and be Present here for our call today. Okay, thank you very much for joining. We've got 75 people on the call right now. We're going to make this call kind of quick because there's a live stream going on at this very moment for the event that's happening in Ocala And I just got a picture from Mitchell, and he says 110 people are in a room right now to share their time and talk about this exciting project of ours. And thank you to him and thank you to the 110 people that took time out of their night, their evening to get together We're going to talk more about that, why that's so important in just a moment. But I'm going to try to get the link for that. Where's the link for that? I'm going to try to get the link for that so that I can pass that to you and encourage you to jump in and tune in and see what's happening right now at seven o'clock. No, at eight o'clock In Ocala, it's 8 o'clock there PM. But Be that as it may. Let's begin. Okay, so 1st of all, as you know, we like to share a video with you at the beginning of these calls. Once upon a time those videos were chock full of social media updates and, you know, shared stories from around the community and ecosystem We'll get back to that format. We'll get back to that soon. That gives us a couple minute buffer for the late arrivals to join us and tune in. But it also is an opportunity for us to show you what's been happening all week. I mean, there's so much happening. This thing has grown to a monstrous size, and it's getting bigger because we're adding new things into the ecosystem. We've learned a lot from our experiences in the last couple months, and we are expand expanding our world to flesh out more of the things that we know that people need and create more entry points for people to join us. What does that mean? Well, if you don't want to buy the coin on the open market and you don't want to become a miner or you're in a state that doesn't allow you to become a miner right now. How do you get involved? Well, join our education platform. Start playing some of our games. The videos that you just watched a moment ago, we played two of them, those were lessons one and two from the introduction to the Iskander Digital Mining Cooperative. Now If you've read the governing principles and constitution of the IDMC, if you've tuned into that conversation at all, you'll know that there are now some requirements and expectations. You know, what happened to the good old days where we could YOLO in some money And put fake, you know, information in there, and not do anything, and just sit back and collect our passive generational wealth. Well, we grew up is the answer to that question. We had to make some fundamental changes to account for our growth and success. It's not about bowing down to the man, it's about realizing that, look, when you're small And nobody knows this better than I do. When you're small and insignificant, no one's watching Nobody really cares what you're doing. They just kind of, you know, let them have fun in their little sandbox over there. That was me for five years with the American Open Currency Standard. Started in 2008, 2008, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. I went largely unnoticed I'm sure that the Federal Reserve was not shaking in their boots as my friends and cowboys were passing gold and silver and copper coins around for chickens and eggs and bartering, you know, in limited circles across the the state or the country. Like, it was small. It was insignificant, and it posed no threat whatsoever to the powers that were And so then all of a sudden, cryptocurrency comes along and the banks go, oh, this might matter. This is fast. It's easy. Anybody with a smartphone can participate. We might want to pay attention to this and pay attention. They did. Not only did they pay attention, but they jumped in and kind of took over the whole thing. We'll talk more about that in a moment. I wanted to talk about that tonight. I forgot to put it on my notes. And so Then all of a sudden we come along and we go, yo, you guys realize what happened here? The banks kind of made those early Bitcoin bros, the OGs, the maxis, and they made them rich and kind of like quarantined them off to their palaces And yachts and took over. Were the guys that are picking up where they left off. We pose a risk. Now, we're not here to be adversarial. We're not here to end the Fed. We're not here to kill the banks. We're not even here to kill Bitcoin. We're here to create options and alternatives for individuals to use if they like big important distinction. You know, we're not a I was going to say competing currency, we use that a lot or complementary currency. You know, we're a voluntary system, where if you'd like to participate, have some fun, make some friends, make some money, you can. We don't have a gun that's pointed at anybody for forcing participation. And let me tell you, it makes it hard To get people to participate. You know, we've got to find incentives. We got to find you know, upside, we have to find little things like that to encourage continued participation, even when the going gets tough And so And so the IDMC is The improved new version of what we did before. And we made important fundamental changes to it. Those changes take into consideration what we've learned about securities. They take into consideration what we've learned about one of the biggest challenges You know, I charged the IDMC community managers, the administrators, with finding really what went wrong. What was the core thing, the one thing That was at the core of the problem with Mind Txc. Now you can look at the numbers and be like, what problem are we talking about? We went from nothing to 15 0 to 50,000 like we did it. What problem are you talking about? Let's be fair and realistic for a moment and say that things could have gone better. They went pretty good, could have gone better. So what's the one thing I don't know. I still don't think we know. I still think that We haven't found it. We haven't found the exact one thing. Now, I identified eight major contributing factors And we've got eight solutions to match those up. But If you get out the magnifying glass, put this thing under a microscope. I still don't think we found the one thing. That's good news and that's bad news. The bad news is that, well, hold on, you're marching forward Into the IDMC without finding the one thing that went wrong? Yeah, yeah. Okay, why? Well, because we had it good enough back then that we went really far with the eight things that we've identified, we're going to go much further this time. Do I think we can go to Amway level. Do I think we can go to Herbalife level? Do I think we can go to, like, biggest in the world that lasts for 100 years without ever making a single change? No. No, I don't. Do I think we can go far enough to push this thing over the goal line Absolutely, yes, I do. That's why we're doing it. We still haven't found the one thing we're looking for it. If you know what it is, let us know. But be that as it may, one of the eight things that's on the list is education How many times have people joined up and been like, I don't know what I'm doing. Friend told me to put in a thousand bucks, I put in a thousand bucks, but I don't get it. I don't get crypto, I don't understand the stupid network marketing thing. I don't understand it. And therefore, I'm going to do nothing. And that's a problem, because if people don't understand it, you know, they back away. You know, they are interested in helping, but if they don't Feel comfortable sharing the story They're not going to do it And we heard that again and again and again. And so, this very long-winded story is all about the two videos that you just watched. There are 10 of them that you will be required to watch. It's about 35 minutes worth of videos You don't have to do it all right away. There's no time requirement. But we have to get the basics covered in the initial introductory Video courses so that you have an understanding of what you're getting yourself into. And we've talked about this many times. Like, don't come in and buy the biggest package. Come in and buy an entry-level package, and then participate. Watch a couple videos, connect with the community, get your kit Download the wallet, set it up and see what you've gotten yourself into. Determine number one, you didn't get scammed and then determine number two, if you feel comfortable putting in a bigger chunk. That's up to you. But the big, big part of getting started is getting started with good information. There are 10 modules. What is money, what is Bitcoin? What is blockchain, etc, etc, etc. They're going to be easy to watch, there's going to be a couple questions at the end, but it's going to help prepare you to understand what this journey is all about, and give you the information that you need to share our story with other people. I'm very excited to announce that we've made a deal with the R3 Global team That's Brig, who is an absolute champion in this space. He's the guy that's most likely to know the answer to that one question. You know, what's the answer? Well, we're looking for it and we're talking to the pros Now, I'm not saying we don't know what it is. I'm not saying that we don't have lots of hints and clues. What I'm saying is that we have yet to really feel confident that we've identified the one thing and done what is necessary or changed what is necessary to take that one thing into consideration change it, eradicate it. you want to use for putting it completely and permanently out of our path, but we're working on it And so I'm really happy to announce that we've made that agreement. I've got to send off a couple bucks to secure the license so that we can integrate that really great information into the crypto you platform You know, look, this is a bit of a challenging and painful and frustrating topic because, you know, we've all felt the same thing for a long time. We've all felt that we're missing this big education part. And of course we are. Of course we are. And so a lot of people ran off and started creating their own versions of an education platform And some people have made some really, really great stuff. This guy made something, that guy made something. We paid for something here, paid for something there. We've got a lot of different versions of this stuff out there. And I'm not saying any one of them is better than the other. I think that ours is really great, to be honest. I think ours But what we want to do is we want to find a way to bring all of that information into our platform, CryptoU.ai. Why? Because we need to have our hands around everything, we need to have control over everything, because we need to, you know, force people to do it our way No, because we're creating a platform that we want to have hundreds of versions of similar information so that you can choose which version you like the best and do it You know, that's why there's vanilla and chocolate. Not everybody likes the exact same thing. You might not like the sound of my voice. Although it is chocolatey velvet and quite hypnotic if you Need to be talked into a nice slumber. But you might like somebody else's version of training content better than ours. Fine. Well, let's bring it into our platform and let's introduce it to the world through our proof of participation concept Earn to learn. You've heard of earned play and earn, or whatever it's called, play to earn, play to earn. Now we're gonna do learn to earn. What does it mean? Watch a video, earn hash power. Oh, and if you're a content provider, somebody that's created really great education material hosted on our platform and we'll give you hash power when people participate and watch your video hosted on our platform. Wait a minute, you're gonna pay me a royalty in HashPower when people use my… of course, why not? We want to have a powerful platform with lots of different education material. He doesn't have to be just about Bitcoin and blockchain. It could be about Web3. It could be about AI, it could be about any of these exciting things in this emerging space. Do you make great trainer videos on how to set up a DeFi wallet and run on Uniswap to pick up meme coins in the altcoin market Do you know how to watch out for new altcoins that are coming out through CoinGecko? Make a video about it. We'll give you an opportunity to publish and host it on CryptoU.ai And then, as people go there, and they Earn to learn. Wait, learn to earn learn and earn. Learn and earn. I'll get… I'll get the phrase down. As they learn and earn, you will also receive a HashPower royalty. What are the numbers? I don't know yet, we don't have it figured out, but it's a powerful way of encouraging, giving an incentive for people to participate, for people to increase their knowledge. And look, guys, this whole project is about empowerment. This whole project is about getting people to understand these kind of foreign, kind of confusing topics, because if they understand them, they'll never go back Think about it, right? How simple is crypto? Hey, just give me your USDT address. I'll shoot you over the blah, blah, blah. Boom, done. Permanent, instant. Irreversible undeniably provable, like, it just works. And then once you start figuring out how to link that stuff into like, you know, tap to pay cards or you figure out how to get a Visa card to be able to cross over to that old fashioned world of like, you know, Visa MasterCard, like you just never want to go back Every dollar that we bring into this decentralized finance ecosystem is another dollar that they no longer control. And that's powerful. And that's something to get them shaking their boots. And that's why our work matters. But it starts with education. I know it's a stupid thing to say. It's so cliche. Oh, education is the corner. Guys, we're talking about the future of money. And if you were here early enough in our call, you know how important money is. You know, money is that tool that civilization uses so that we don't need baseball bats. If we don't have a way to trade with each other, it's good old fashioned barter or giant old-fashioned club. and may the strongest, most ruthless psychopaths win. That's how it worked before we became civilized. The tool of civilization was money That's what they used so that they could trade instead of pillaging and plundering. That's why it matters. And we have a chance, a chance, a chance. It's this big. A chance To change the future forever with honest money And there's a simple question at the core of that chance. Would you put$ 1,000 into that? Would you take$ 1,000 chance If you knew that you were investing in a teeny tiny little opportunity To save the world. to make the world a better place, to give our children and their children a real shot At life on planet Earth as we know it Lofty goal, as I've said before, but that's what's at stake. And if we don't understand this stuff, we got nothing. We got nothing. We got a bunch of people that are in it crossing their fingers, YOLOing their way into a lottery ticket When you've got education, you're empowered. You have the ability to affect the outcome. You're not riding the roller coaster, whether it's the Bitcoin roller coaster or the Texacoin roller coaster or the Iskander or the Zero Chill, whatever it is See what I did there? Whatever it is You have the ability to decide the future for yourself and not cross your fingers and wait for somebody else to do it for you. that's what empowerment is. That's what educate. That's why education matters. My 21-minute ramble is to tell you that we're making great progress on the Crypto U.AI content. These are things that'll be required of IDMC members To prove up your active participation, to get you guys really prepared and equipped to go out there and help us succeed. We want to succeed, we want you to help us succeed, and it doesn't happen automatically It's not our future success will not be by accident. It'll be by design, and education is at the core. Okay, so that's number one number 2 is legal updates. Not much to report, guys, very, very quiet on the legal front. The only thing that has really happened, I think, since we last talk is I've got a confirmation that I will be presenting to our friends at the SEC on June 11th, all day June 11th. It's a formal deposition. I will be under oath I will be doing that with the assistance of Council They have already had an opportunity to present to the SEC, and they said it went very well. I can't give you details, they asked me not to share details on why it went very well But I can tell you that they learned the SEC learned a lot. Now, that's an important thing, guys, because we kind of expected that. What did we expect? We expected to do a really good job. We expected to do the right thing. We expected to be upfront and honest about the good and the bad, the risks and the rewards. We expected or we shared with you guys liquidity strategies. We shared with you guys You know, where the money's going. We shared with you guys where the extra money is being saved And we did all these things with transparency as our guiding light. Well, unless you tune into 106 weeks of Zoom calls, or you read 106 weeks of Zoom transcripts, you don't know all that stuff. So if you see something like us come along and big money, supercars, you know, mansions on the beach Airport advertising, billboards up, hundreds of them all over the country, you go, what's going on here And we know by the fact that the evidence file from the TSSB in Texas was this thick They didn't really do their homework. That's okay. Their job is to protect investors So they do what they're gonna do, right? Now, we have to respond. It's expensive for us to respond. It's time-consuming for us to respond, it's reputationally painful for us to deal with that. But that's just how it works. Why? Because we chose to do something kind of unusual We decided to do it kind of big and successfully And we decided to do it in this gray area realm of DeFi, you know, alternative money that's highly suspicious, highly troublesome highly filled with scams and, you know, money laundering and all kinds of terrible things. So, we're in a space that everyone's watching. So we can't be surprised and confused and feel like they're out to get us, and the three-letter agencies are blah blah blah. No, no, no, no. Do the three-letter agencies really want us to win? No, they don't. No. They're not going to call us up and be like, hey, could you guys do like a really good job of like ending the Fed and like replacing you? No, no, no, no, that's not going to ever happen. We're not going to get a gold star seal of approval on the work that we're doing. The most we can hope for is to be left alone, which is all I want. That's all I want. But you know what's the saying? Often there's a piece that's found on the other side of war. And so we have to deal with it, which is fine. And what we want to do first and foremost is help them understand the key things that they are missing. Our team, our legal team did that a couple days ago. It went well. I will do that on June 11th. Personally, myself. I'm very excited about it. I think that with my chocolatey velvet baritone voice, I can be quite eloquent in explaining confusing and complex topics And so I'm looking forward to having an opportunity to dress up and go in there and remotely share some of these important things that they may be missing. And so that's really the only update that I've got in the legal front. Otherwise, it's all quiet. We are steadily marching towards our big August 17, 18, 19, 20 hearing date. You know, look We know that the rules have changed significantly from the SEC or not changed, but been clarified The some of the haziness has gone away And that's really powerful for us, guys. There are a lot of ways that we could and should easily win this thing. That means that the opportunity for us to plan and prepare for that likely outcome is right now. What are we doing today to capitalize on the likeliness that we're going to win in August That's what we need to think about. Let's, like, get rid of the confusion and the frustration and the fear and the uncertainty that came along with all that stuff that we weren't prepared for. And let's get a plan together to move forward. Let's put some people on the road. Let's go reconnect. Why? You know, when I first started this thing, I had a line that I really enjoyed and I got the line from Yellowstone And one of the, you know, antagonists, is that what they're called? The bad guys? Was talking to John Dutton, the protagonist. He says, you know what you are, John? John's on his horse with his cowboy hat. You're authentic. Now you're a real rancher cowboy And you can't buy authenticity. And I said, I really like that line and I've So for a long time that authenticity in 2024, 2025, 2026 is the corner of the realm. We live in a world of fake news. We live in a world of AI. Even you get a video call from a scammer, ask them to put Hands up in front of their face, and apparently more or less fingers than are necessary will pop up, and you can tell that that person is real But authenticity is the corner of the realm We're authentic Not only in what we're doing, but what I did over the years, and some of the people on our team did, like Eddie and other guys that have been around this story, this conversation for a long time Now, I started AOCS standard in 2008. That's the same year that Satoshi published the Bitcoin white paper. They didn't even have Bitcoin mined yet. Bitcoin mining didn't start until 2009. So I'm there introducing alternative currency to the world through gold and silver and copper coins Before Bitcoin was even in diapers Literally. I launched the AOCS on November 24th was like Thanksgiving Day or Thanksgiving Eve 2008. Bitcoin mined its first block January of 2009. You can't get a better time, a better timeline than that does not exist. Nobody has been around alternative currency Working towards establishing alternative currencies that long I think I'm the leading guy in the space. Anyway, setting that aside. We go way back and it's authentic and you can feel the authenticity in the conversations we have in the presentations that I make, in the things that I share, I get to point the things that I did in 2017 and 2012 and 2012 and 2008 That make me uniquely qualified to have this conversation with you. That's powerful. And you can't buy it. You can't fake it. The internet doesn't forget it's pretty easy to prove these things up. Go back and watch my video from 14 years ago where I told Congress to leave our money alone. It's out there. It's real. So I said for a long time that authenticity is the new corner of the realm And I like that phrase, I still like it today, but I had a conversation with Gage Engage has told me that, yeah, bro, that was like 200 Late years ago Because now the new coin of the realm is human connection Try that on for size Human connection is now the new corner of the realm. We live in a world today where people are so overwhelmed With everything that's going on, all the AI and digital, everything that the new corner of the realm is now just getting together with other real live human beings. And so right now at this very moment, we've got a bunch of people that have decided to take time out of their evening and hang out in Ocala, Florida. As you may remember, we kicked off the The East Coast tour going from Dallas all the way up to visit our friends in Nashville and Murfreesboro area. We headed from there out to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. To connect with Swapi and Laurel. What's up guys? And then they headed down the coast probably for a very beautiful drive. They were in Jacksonville last night, maybe two nights ago, hanging out with Brig and his squad in the I don't know what they call that garage. There's some sort of fun name for that garage In Jacksonville, now they're in Ocala. I don't know where they're going next. I heard somewhere in Central Florida, maybe with Jim Carrey, maybe Lakeland area, I think And they're heading down on their way all the way to Miami for a couple things now, guys. We got a bunch of stuff lined up. We've got the… oh, this is exciting news. How about this news? I just got confirmation before we jumped on this call That we will launch Iskander coin on Bitmart from the Bitmart party at consensus in Miami on May 5th. If it's an important day. Why is May 5th an important day, you ask? Well, maybe, maybe I got my little lady out there listening. Scroll down to the case. Here she is listening. Baby, you should come back as a panelist. I'm inviting you to become a panelist, and you can tell us Why May 5th is such an important day. And let me double check that, make sure I got the day right, because I don't want to mess that up. My fan's not on, bro. May 5th. Let me double check it, make sure I'm not messing this up, because this is too important to mess up. Scrolling down Okay, there it is. May 5th Babe, did you reconnect as a panelist? You did. Where are you? I can't see you Well Come on, don't be shy. I'm here I don't see you. How do I know you're real? I don't. I need to see you and I need to see a hand up in front of the face. You look great, by the way. Hi. Hi We always try to connect in the morning for coffee. So here we are, we're just doing it very publicly this time. Full transparency, they call it. Tell us about May 5th Go on No, you go on Okay, so May 5th is Cinco de Mayo And what's unique This year it happens to happen on Taco Tuesday Cinco de Mayo, what is it? Once every seven years we get lucky and we get Cinco de Mayo on Taco Tuesday. Yeah. That's serendipitous, I say. It's a sign. It's a sign. But what else is on May 5th? You tell me. Well, according to my calendar Besides it being Taco Tuesday, besides it being Cinco de Mayo, besides it being the launch day of Iskander Coin on BitMart, one of the largest exchanges in the world, it also happens to be our 21st Anniversary. We'll see. If we make it We'll sit down, we'll have to do it over Zoom, and we'll have a conversation, see if we want to renew for another year. This year's been a little shaky. This year's been a little shaky. It's been a couple months since we've seen each other in person. You're holding down the fort. You had an event there At the at the house, invited out some of our leadership, some of the IDMC Silver Guard, some of the Texacoin Rangers And the whole reason for that, the whole reason for, and you're welcome to turn off your camera now that I put you on the spot Sorry. The whole reason for all of those things, guys, is human connection. The reason we put the RV out on the street with a bunch of people and asked you guys to get together is because we have to connect. It's powerful. It's… might even be so powerful that it's the new coin of the realm What does that mean? It means that if we don't remember what we're doing, why we're doing it, that we're trying to affect the lives of normal individual human being people Then we lose sight of the goal. Start to become hazy. What are we doing? We're behind our screens all day. Get out. Go say hi to people. Break bread together, share a story, cry together. If you need to cry. What's going on in your life? How can we help? You know, these are tough times. I'm not talking about Texitcoin. I'm talking about life. I'm talking about this ever-changing world we live in. Last time we got together and I was there in person, we were in the middle of this conflict we've got now in the Middle East Things are changing. We predicted it. It wasn't real hard to predict, to be honest, but We gotta remember that we're still here, we're still human beings, we still have hearts We still have challenges. You've got challenges. I've got challenges. But let's get together. Let's connect Let's spend a little bit of time together. Let's hear each other's stories. That's all we got That's what we do. We share stories with each other. And so May 5th, the team will end up down there around Miami for consensus, and we'll launch Iskander Coin on May 5th. I just got the confirmation a few minutes ago that it'll be launched from the party where we are a co-sponsor Very exciting stuff. I wonder if there's a way that I can show you that… let me see if they've got it up on their socials bit mark Bit art. There's their website. Where are their socials? Is it up on any kind of socials? I see X Bidenmark exchange F1 champions, etc, etc, etc. No. I don't see it quickly off the social, so we're not going to waste time on that. But that is very exciting. Come and Have a good time with us. I don't know what the rules are for the BitMart event. I don't know if it's open to the public, but look it up. If you're in or around Miami, you want to go out, we've got some tickets to that event. Connect with us. And then, of course, we've got the Crypto Polo Cup, which is going down on the 9th, and that is the grand finale We've got a lot of tickets to that. We got a lot of our VIPs going out there. There are some rumors about some VIPs that'll be in attendance there. That is a big event for us. It's a co-sponsored by Binance Let me see if I can pull up that website crypto Poloca. There you go. It is not in Dubai. It is now in Miami. And there we are as the lead sponsor. But look at who else is sponsoring this thing. Did I show you guys like the jerseys and everything? For that, I got a video. Let me see if I can find the video. Let me see if I can find the video. Here we go. Palm Beach, Florida, Santa Clara Polo Club 9 May 2026. Yeah, that's how they put the date in the rest of the world. It's very confusing. They put the I don't know, they do it different. You go to put your birthday in 222. No, no, no, we've never heard of that month. What is what is that month? Anyway, so Very exciting times, very big stuff happening, but that is simply phase one Phase one What does that mean? It means there's phase two It means that we are then gonna come back to Dallas, regroup, and begin the West Coast part of the tour. And there it is. We go from Dallas. There's my little wife there. We go to Dallas to Denver Denver to Salt Lake, this is proposed, nothing written in stone. We have no official dates yet. Denver to Salt Lake to go visit the smashed-up 911 GTS Then we go from there to Las Vegas for a little R&R. Trey's 21 now, right? Is that right? Trey's 21 now. Vegas is a whole different story. Trey, if you get married to Samantha You guys can both have a good time in Vegas together. Then off to Los Angeles and rounding out the West Coast tour in Phoenix. That is a proposal. If you are somewhere in this vicinity or Can make it out to an event. Great. If you're in this vicinity or somewhere along this path, let's have a stop. Let's get together. Let's have a good time. Let's hug it out and let's talk about our bright future. So that is the West Coast tour. We're doing the East Coast tour now East Coast Tornell. Next comes the West Coast tour. And again, it's all because human connection. Might just be the new coin of the realm. That's it. We're just people. We're all on a path. We're all trying to make our lives better. And the more that we connect and work with each other, the further we can get and the faster we can get there. That's what it's all about. So Legal news and updates, why we're here, where we're going next. Oh, I told you at the beginning of the call, I wanted to talk about Bitcoin for a little bit. And Amount of time, you know, I know that there's things going on that are important elsewhere. So I don't want to get too deep into this, but I want to remind you guys just why what we're doing matters. Because digital currency is coming our way And there are two ways to do it. Their way or our way. Why does their way suck? Because the banks own Bitcoin now The banks own Bitcoin and Most of the rest of the industry. What does that mean? They own the mining, and they own the majority of the coins. Who's the biggest holder of Bitcoin now? It's Michael Saylor. What's his strategy? Turn Bitcoin into a digital collectible Do a run on the market, drive the price up, and then what eventually dump it Get rich and then dump it I don't know if he says out loud that his plan is to dump it someday, but what else could you do? We're just going to acquire a bunch of Bitcoin, make it ultra scarce, ultra expensive, and then we're going to give it away to the poor and needy, the homeless, you save the sharks, the whales I don't know what the endgame is for them But as they continue to acquire more and take it off market, it drives the price up. Well, who's the second biggest holder of Bitcoin? BlackRock. The institutions are the biggest holders of this stuff. So if you jump into the Bitcoin community and you help drive the price up, you go out there and work your butt off to try to bring more awareness to Bitcoin, all you're doing is you're making the banks rich. That's it. Who owns the Bitcoin miners? The banks and foreign nations do. One of the biggest miners in the world is Iran I'll say what you want about them and the war that's going on, but they get really, really cheap energy and crypto mining takes energy and converts it into kind of portable digital wealth I think it really cheap energy. And so they're able to mine crypto very, very inexpensively. And so if you get involved and you create more interest in Bitcoin and drive the price up and the miners get the profits from the transaction fees, the mining rewards, who's getting those profits? Not you and me. It's not us Texacoin changes that. That's the only one that does. Texagon is the opposite of that It has a system, a fundamental foundational system That requires Individuals exclusively to participate, to earn hash power. You can't buy it You can buy one seat 100 mega hash. You can buy nine seats But if you want to be a significant recipient of TXC, you got to earn it I don't care if you make the ASICs I don't care if you have the money printer Unless you're willing to go out and share your time and your energy and your presentation skills, and your living room, or your local barbecue joint, if you're not willing to roll up your sleeves and put in the work, you're not going to be a big miner Look at who the biggest Miners of TXC are. Look at who the biggest holders of TXC are Even if somebody drives the price of TXC down and buys a bunch of it on the open market, they're not getting the mining. There will be more coins later. Where do those coins go? To the miners. Guys, it's really powerful. It's profoundly powerful That we have a system where the upside, if there's an upside, and I can't say that there is, we've been struggling recently. It's not guaranteed in any way. We already know all that. But if I'm right The upside goes to you and to me. That's it. The banks can buy a nine pack if they want. I'll take their money, but they ain't getting any more of it. Unless they're willing to work for it. And I don't think they know what that means. That's it for today's call. Guys, I hope you know, I hope you see, I hope you feel that I'm as passionate about this project now as I've ever been. I'm as sure about our success now As I've ever been Why? Delusional Arrogant, maybe. But it's because we've seen the dragons now In the past, we only imagined what they looked like. They're really big, they got, like, 3 letters on their chest and blazon, they're out to kill And all of a sudden you pull back the curtain, you see what's really there. Now they may be listening in right now and be like, oh, really? Really? Not afraid of us still? Well, we've got something to show you. I don't care, guys. I literally don't care. I started with nothing I came from a house in Bluebell, Pennsylvania with a blue tarp for a roof. And that's how my family lived. The toilet on the first floor fell through to the basement, and we just closed that door, and nobody went in there. That's where I came from. That's what I ran away from. I'm not doing this to end up with nothing. I'm not doing it brave hard, give me liberty, give me death. Like, that's not what I'm doing. I think I can win. I think we're smart enough. I think that those dragons are actually not so terrible that they can't be Not defeated, not sliced the head off of them, but, like, give it a little treat and, like, sit down to sleep. Go, go mess with somebody else. We're not the guys you want to mess with. That doesn't mean we're bigger than you, it doesn't mean we're more powerful than you, it doesn't mean we have deeper pockets than you It just means that there's nothing here. This means that there's no fraud Without fraud, you lose all the teeth. You have a case that's not exciting to put in front of the jury. Let me tell you about Mr. Gray. Let me tell you about him. He's been honest and upfront with all these people for 100 weeks To ask them to take a leap of faith. It went really well for a lot of them. And he's still working hard on it every day. Let's convict him No. Do they do bad things to good people? Sure. Of course, you know those stories. But we've seen the Dragons now, guys, and they're not that scary. And we're way more prepared to deal with the future than we were before. And as we put these things behind us and we move some of the uncertainty out of the way, and we retain some really great advisors and counsel We give ourselves to do the ability to do 100 times more, better, faster than we did before. And that's what I'm excited about. And that's what Texacoin is. It's a community of people that have decided to get together, whether it's because we're authentic or because we just like the idea of Meeting up and hugging it out We're doing the unusual We're proving that it's not the impossible Day in and day out, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for that. There's a lot coming down the pike, a lot to be excited about. Thanks for tuning in and have a wonderful Thursday night. And shout out to my friends And Ocala and safety