Marathon Finale: The Soul of TEXITcoin - Mission, Money, & Our Future

Bobby Gray: It's day 5 of the marathon. I'm tired. I don't know about you, but a 5-day marathon is a long marathon, and man, takes a bunch out of you. Waking up.
Bobby Gray: Getting notes together.
Bobby Gray: Pretending to prepare.
Bobby Gray: Bobby Gray here for Day 5 of…
Bobby Gray: I don't know what we're calling this marathon. We're gonna shower before today's call, so… That'll come later.
Bobby Gray: Fixed my hair a little bit.
Bobby Gray: This is our… kind of post-SEC interview…
Bobby Gray: Post, we've been quiet for 4 months. Post… Everything's been changed.
Bobby Gray: Everything's been improved.
Bobby Gray: We need to talk. Marathon.
Bobby Gray: That's what we're doing. Once this is done, we will get back to our regularly scheduled
Bobby Gray: probably Tuesday and Thursday night calls.
Bobby Gray: But this is day 5 of the marathon, and I'm glad we've had so much time to spend together. Our first call had…
Bobby Gray: 400 and something people, second one's a little less, a little less, a little less, and not that everyone has made it to the last call finish line, there are 96 of us here so far. So if you tune in all week, thank you very much. If you watch the videos.
Bobby Gray: To get the recaps, thank you very much as well. A reminder that everything…
Bobby Gray: that we're doing here is now being archived to the TEXITcoin page. I've got two screens in front of me here. I'll share the other one with you to show you exactly where they are, but,
Bobby Gray: vast improvements over here on the TEXITcoin website. Monumental, night and day. What have we been doing the last few months? We've been fixing and improving things across the board. I don't think anything has been untouched at this point, but if you go to the top.
Bobby Gray: We've got the link up here for the Honest Money Hour. Click watch and register, and it'll take you to our updates page. And on that page, every one of our calls gets archived and completely
Bobby Gray: Transcribed.
Bobby Gray: Why? So that we've got a massive searchable index now of all the things that we've…
Bobby Gray: talked about, and I'm gonna go as far back as we can find. Everything that I can get my hands on, that we've recorded, I will get on one of three different websites, either TEXITcoin.org, MindTXC.com, or on the Iskander Network, website. So there are 3 different places.
Bobby Gray: That you could find some of these things depending on who you are and which conversations you're plugged into, but this is where they're all going.
Bobby Gray: And I'm really proud of this information. You know, it's good quality information, and we've been working on making it together for a long time now, and I'm just so happy that it has finally found a home.
Bobby Gray: that you can access, and the search engine bots can access as well. That, helps to create, you know, a higher level of confidence in our narrative for the things that do the automatic indexing and question answering and, you know, AI-fueled
Bobby Gray: Stuff on.
Bobby Gray: there's nothing out there, they can't find it, they don't know where to look for it, they can't associate it with us. And so now all that stuff's on our website, and and that's a huge, huge improvement forward,
Bobby Gray: for… The quality of our information getting out there the right way to the right place.
Bobby Gray: Okay, what other housekeeping type of things do I have to cover before we get into tonight's call, which is actually a really important call. It's a really important call tonight, because we do have some decisions to make, and we might even have to put it out to a vote.
Bobby Gray: I am in the process right now of also upgrading our proof system.
Bobby Gray: If you remember back in the old days, and I can't… find… like, I've asked…
Bobby Gray: the Wayback Machine to show us
Bobby Gray: kind of the historical version of it, and it's, like, struggling, and that's not good. But in the old days on the MindTXE website, it was full of charts, and we've got some of those charts here now, but we had a whole page full of charts and reports, and I'm working on rebuilding that
Bobby Gray: data source, because that was a powerful thing for us. The problem with it back in the day is that it was just a bunch of charts.
Bobby Gray: And you had to kind of take it on faith that the information
Bobby Gray: that was driving those charts was true and accurate. And so, you know, we published a lot of information. We shared a lot of stuff, but same thing, where is it? You know, you go into the Telegram group, and there's a picture every week of me buying mining equipment, putting in, you know, a screenshot of the conversation with the vendor, a copy of the transaction ID, and so if you were tuned in on Telegram, you had the ability
Bobby Gray: to look at that and, you know, decide whether or not we were doing the right thing, and being honest with, you know, sharing the details with it, about it with you.
Bobby Gray: And so, you know, I think we did a really good job of being transparent. Obviously, that's been one of the core things that people continue to this day to say that they like about this project.
Bobby Gray: You know, hey, where can you go for a reasonable amount of money to get into something that you're at least pretty darn sure is real? And not many places.
Bobby Gray: But it's going to a whole new level
Bobby Gray: on the updated website. We have all the information.
Bobby Gray: you know, we've compiled it, we've just never presented it. Well, why not? Well, it's been on the wish list with the development team forever and ever and ever. You know, but the development team are 7 guys minimum on there, full-time, they're working on
Bobby Gray: commission systems, and reward systems, and blockchain systems, and security systems, and wallet systems, so they've got a long list of stuff, and they're not using the tools that I've only discovered in, like, the last month.
Bobby Gray: That was kind of the beginning of the end of the relationship with that, hey, you guys gotta use these tools. -Oh, our days are numbered, we're out, okay?
Bobby Gray: But now that they are out, and we are using these tools, and we can prioritize
Bobby Gray: Any way we want, and we can get things accomplished.
Bobby Gray: By ourselves, We've got a huge…
Bobby Gray: huge improvement coming our way. And so now, if you go over to the proof system, first of all, we've got a warning here saying that the proof ledger migration is in process. There's a lot of information out there. In the old days, it looked like we brought in 147 million bucks.
Bobby Gray: And we had, you know, a lot of profit, a lot of leftover money. We're gonna fix that to a certain extent. I'll explain what fix means in a minute. But it showed you that we had profit or income.
Bobby Gray: And so, because we haven't migrated all of our records over here right now, it looks like we only spent $10 million. And so our net profit is way larger than it was before, which is way larger than what it should be. And so, please be warned that these numbers are not…
Bobby Gray: 100% accurate yet. In fact, if you scroll down, you'll see that the only thing that we've spent money on is mining equipment, which is obviously not true. But if you click on this now.
Bobby Gray: You're gonna get a section down below which gives you every single transaction.
Bobby Gray: And I've already been yelled at, by our community.
Bobby Gray: And I can't even tell you if I've been yelled at by our council, because I've already been
Bobby Gray: I might have already been yelled at by our counsel about saying… my counsel told me, my attorney told me, the lawyers told me, can't say that stuff.
Bobby Gray: So I'm not saying that stuff anymore. I gotta be very careful. They're not happy about it. They could have told me…
Bobby Gray: I might have heard somewhere that they are not happy about it.
Bobby Gray: I don't know what to say. They're watching…
Bobby Gray: So, I've heard some feedback from our community, it's like, bro.
Bobby Gray: This is over the top, are you sure you want to be sharing all of this stuff?
Bobby Gray: And my answer to that question is, yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure.
Bobby Gray: I'm sure that I want to be sharing it. Is… am I sure that it's the right thing? I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure.
Bobby Gray: Am I real happy that, Li Ying's email address is, like, right here on the log device section? No. No, I'm gonna change that today, as per her request. NAI's security warning.
Bobby Gray: But I am sure that this project has only gotten to where it is today because of transparency.
Bobby Gray: And unfortunately, kind of like honesty and like, you know, morality and ethics and stuff.
Bobby Gray: there's no, like, mid-ground in transparency. You either are transparent, or you're not. Now, from time to time, I tell you if I'm not telling something.
Bobby Gray: I'm not sharing some part of the story, some strategic, you know, thing that we're doing to further our mission. I tell you that I'm not going to tell you about that. You don't know all the stuff yet about Layer 2 and Downtown Digital and what's going on with that. That's by design.
Bobby Gray: Why? Because we're still working on it. You know, plenty of times, I've come to this conversation and say, guys, get all excited, we're…
Bobby Gray: Acquiring a hydroelectric power station
Bobby Gray: In Texas, and then it doesn't work out. People are like, what happened to the hydro station, bro? And I said, well, I didn't say we were absolutely doing it. I said, we were looking at it, and we were, you know, excited about it, and we were confident about it, and then you guys take that, and you talk about it with your people, and they talk about it with their people, and next thing you know, the headline reads, you know, Bobby Gray.
Bobby Gray: is buying the Gonzalez Power Station, and I go, well, that's not exactly what I said, but you know how Whisper Down the Lane works. And so,
Bobby Gray: And so I gotta be careful about what I share, and if I'm being careful about it, or intentionally not giving you all the details, I tell you that I'm not giving you all the details. But when it comes to the work that we did together on MindTixie, I really don't have a choice.
Bobby Gray: And so, you're gonna get full disclosure out of those numbers. It's coming our way. We've got all the information that contributed to the previous
Bobby Gray: The previous proof… Chart that we had, and so now we're building it back even better.
Bobby Gray: As our friend Biden says.
Bobby Gray: So now, if you click on a category, it shows you all of the entries that match that filter. Well, obviously, we've spent money on promotion, we've spent money on overhead, we spent money on commission. We also have a new category set up down here for savings, and that will give you kind of a real-time view
Bobby Gray: as to what we've still got in the way of firepower. It's quite a bit of firepower still.
Bobby Gray: like, a massive amount of firepower. We'll see in the next couple days as it comes together, but…
Bobby Gray: That's really important, because, you know, a lot of people are looking at this project and saying, well, it's dead. And I'm like, okay, well, it's… I don't know who makes that determination. The network still works fine, the coins pay out every day.
Bobby Gray: But if we went into this project a couple years ago thinking that it would cost a million bucks to get this thing known to the top 100, well, guess what? We have way more than that now.
Bobby Gray: Way more than that. It's my job to continue to keep that safe.
Bobby Gray: Or when the time is right for us to use it. And it's a difficult challenge. We've talked about that in the past. And so, yeah, we ain't dead. We've got a substantial amount of resources, and you will see that number pop up.
Bobby Gray: In the next couple days on, the proof chart as well. That's gonna be an interesting thing. Lots of conversation and debate about exactly where the money went and how much of it is on standby for our continued success, but it's out there. We've got it.
Bobby Gray: And you're gonna see it very soon in this massive proof system upgrade, so please.
Bobby Gray: Don't jump to conclusions just yet. Bobby spent more than zero dollars on promotion and overhead and commission and all that stuff, but as you can tell, quite plainly from the chart, there's really only been one section where the blanks have been filled in so far. This is not everything in this category. We've spent a lot of money on infrastructure, on land and leases, and on, you know, installation.
Bobby Gray: And on copper wire, just got another bill today for $90,000 of copper wire, it ain't cheap to do what we're doing. And so, what we wanted to get in here, first and foremost.
Bobby Gray: is the bulk… I haven't checked yet to see if this is all of our ASICs.
Bobby Gray: But we wanted to get this stuff in here, and again, you've got transaction IDs, I can make these clickable, linkable.
Bobby Gray: And…
Bobby Gray: So you can see what we got here, how much hash power it added up to, so a lot more detail. We've shared this stuff in the past on Zoom calls, we've shared it in the past on Telegram calls, or Telegram chats.
Bobby Gray: And now we're gonna see all of that information
Bobby Gray: get funneled together and posted to this proof website so that you and our friends over at the SEC and any other regulatory agency that's looking at this thing and saying, is it a scam? We don't know. There's even a section down the bottom. Where's the profit?
Bobby Gray: The money that's left over, where does it go? Well, there's a section in here, and this was something that came up.
Bobby Gray: In the discussion last Thursday.
Bobby Gray: about how much money did I make? And so you can go in here and you can read that I probably walked away, if I had walked away, I'd probably taken about $6 million of compensation out of this project so far. What did I do with it? I paid off some debt, and I bought my family a house. That's where
Bobby Gray: The majority of those resources went.
Bobby Gray: Full disclosure, guys, like it or not, you're gonna get it. You know, hopefully you can…
Bobby Gray: see the silver lining in all of these things, but we're gonna talk about money tonight, and we're gonna talk about our mission tonight, and we're gonna talk about how those things are, permanently connected together, and what it means for us. We'll get there in just…
Bobby Gray: A little bit as I finish up some housekeeping stuff here. So, proof system upgrade is underway. Trying to watch what I say to not break attorney-client privilege. Sorry, attorneys.
Bobby Gray: My theory on this question and problem all along has been, like, I got nothing to hide.
Bobby Gray: I haven't said anything to my attorneys that I haven't already said probably 20 times to my friends out here in the Zoom world. So, you know.
Bobby Gray: Does it piss them off? Sure. Is it bad? Probably. But…
Bobby Gray: But I don't think I have anything to hide.
Bobby Gray: So, I'm not real careful about the filter.
Bobby Gray: That I use as I'm discussing this with my 144 besties out there on today's call. Again, today is Thursday, June 18th in Texas. It's my daughter's birthday. Happy birthday, Samantha. She had her first drink, espresso Martini.
Bobby Gray: Good… good choice. That would have been my go-to, either that or an old-fashioned. Maybe she'll have one of those tonight.
Bobby Gray: In memory of Dad.
Bobby Gray: And the time that we've shared together. And that, that brings us, kind of, to…
Bobby Gray: the point of… Tonight's call and the wrapping up-ish.
Bobby Gray: of Marathon Week. What are we doing?
Bobby Gray: What are we doing?
Bobby Gray: I'm tired.
Bobby Gray: You're tired.
Bobby Gray: A lot of people on our team are tired, people are looking at it and saying.
Bobby Gray: There comes that moment where the general looks out across the battlefield.
Bobby Gray: And sees carnage, and death, and blood, and gore, and sadness, and hears screams, and crying, and says, what am I doing?
Bobby Gray: And there's a brief moment of pause there, where you look at it and you say, what are we doing?
Bobby Gray: I mean, think about it. Depositions, millions of dollars on attorney fees… Crawl websites?
Bobby Gray: Videos dedicated to bashing us, people getting phone calls in the middle of the night from anonymous weirdos saying the strangest of things.
Bobby Gray: Bobby being separated from his family on the other side of the world, missing his daughter's 21st birthday? What are we doing?
Bobby Gray: What is this all about?
Bobby Gray: You know, 2 years…
Bobby Gray: And 6 months later, we look back on all this and we go, what are we doing?
Bobby Gray: Why are we doing this?
Bobby Gray: And so I want to take you through, kind of.
Bobby Gray: that thought process that happens in my mind. Now, calling myself… my top nod is not working out today, because I haven't cleaned my hair, but…
Bobby Gray: It's also time for haircut.
Bobby Gray: And a trip.
Bobby Gray: It gets itchy. You can see me like a puppy.
Bobby Gray: What are we doing?
Bobby Gray: What's this thing all about?
Bobby Gray: Let's take a quick walk through, kind of, the history of it all.
Bobby Gray: And… Try to remember how we ended up where we are today.
Bobby Gray: and C… Just for a second, look around, see if we recognize the neighborhood.
Bobby Gray: You know, like, you get… in your own head, you get into this, what is it called, an echo chamber, go, go, go, go, go…
Bobby Gray: And… You have to, every once in a while, pause.
Bobby Gray: And look around.
Bobby Gray: Stop. Look. Listen.
Bobby Gray: And say, what am I doing?
Bobby Gray: Does this really matter?
Bobby Gray: And I was messing around with the whiteboard a moment ago, because I was really hoping to use a whiteboard to draw out kind of what's going on in my brain, so you can share…
Bobby Gray: You know, how these things work in my mind.
Bobby Gray: And, unfortunately, I got that really cool trackpad pen thing back in the US, and it's not here.
Bobby Gray: So we're gonna use a mouse.
Bobby Gray: And a whiteboard and see what happens in a minute.
Bobby Gray: But let's go back. Let's go back to the very beginning of this conversation, not all the way back to 2007 when I went on documentary overload, not to 2008 when I started the American Open Currency Standard, not to 2012 when I testified in U.S. Congress about alternative currencies.
Bobby Gray: Not that 2013, when I lost it all, landed on…
Bobby Gray: beach in Indonesia, not to 2017, when I discovered… well, maybe to 2017, maybe to 2017, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think we'll start that.
Bobby Gray: But we gotta go back. We gotta remember how we got to where we are today, because it does matter.
Bobby Gray: But we're gonna fast-forward for a quick second to 2023.
Bobby Gray: And in 2023, I decided that I was going to get out of the coin manufacturing business. You know, back to 2008, I've been designing and marketing. In 2012, I started manufacturing coins.
Bobby Gray: And I made a lot of coins in my day. I made millions and millions of coins, lots of copper coins, lots of silver coins, a couple handfuls of gold coins. Gold was never really my thing. You know, the old saying is that, like, you know, gold is the money of kings, silver is the money of gentlemen, copper is the market.
Bobby Gray: Place money, and debt is the money of slaves.
Bobby Gray: And so, you know, I never really got into manufacturing gold, which was really kind of a silly thing, because that's how you make your revenues look huge. Man, how did you guys do a billion dollars in sales? Well, you sell, you know, a million ounces of gold, and you're at the billion dollar mark. But we never really did that. We did silver, which is a poor man's gold.
Bobby Gray: And…
Bobby Gray: In 2023, I decided I was done with it. And that decision came from a couple different things. One is, I had a hernia. I had two hernias. I didn't even know, but I knew that my body was tired of picking up these, you know, 1,000-ounce bars.
Bobby Gray: and dropping them as slowly and carefully as I could, placing them in this vat of molten silver. You know, it's hot, it's dangerous, and…
Bobby Gray: I ain't no spring chicken no more. I can still do it. You know, once the song as good as I once… I can do it once.
Bobby Gray: But I was getting tired of that, and my body was getting tired of that, and as you're hauling around, you know, that heavy.
Bobby Gray: material and working it across your factory floor, man, it takes its toll. I don't remember… many days
Bobby Gray: at the factory, not completing a shift with blood coming out of somewhere. I mean, you take this silver, you melt it all down, you get burnt. Okay, you don't get too bloody from a burn, but you take that, and then you cast it, and you get burned again, and then you take that, and you roll it. Well, now you're starting to, like, put your hands into, like, a machine that's ready to just smash your fingers on your whole world, which has happened in our factory before.
Bobby Gray: And then you get this long strip, and then you punch your blanks out of that long strip. Well, the thing that's left behind, I don't know what we call it, sizzle? Somebody called it sizzle or something? But the thing that's left behind after you punch the blanks out of that strip is really sharp.
Bobby Gray: And so you're grabbing it, it's jabbing you, it hits your leg, and so you're just bleeding, like, little pokes. Every day, I'd come back to the house, sweat, soot, dirt, and my family just looks at me, and they're like, what are you doing? I'm like, I'm trying to save the world, okay?
Bobby Gray: And it comes at a price. Comes at a price to my hernia, comes at a price to my, my back.
Bobby Gray: And I got tired of it. I just got tired of it. I said, there's gotta be a better way. You know, the kids don't care about gold and silver coins. The turning point for me was really my big customer, JM Bullion, not buying our best-selling coin anymore, the Donald Trump one-ounce silver rail.
Bobby Gray: And they said, you know, kids don't like Trump, and we want to start selling more coins to young people.
Bobby Gray: And so we were just not gonna buy this product anymore, in fact, we're gonna take all the Trump stuff off our website. And I went, whoa.
Bobby Gray: Kids don't buy silver coins, they're into crypto.
Bobby Gray: I know crypto. I should be into crypto. What am I doing? I'm like…
Bobby Gray: on this mission, and I'm not making progress, and I'm running out of, like, strength in my spine, and I'm not making any money. I mean, it's a… it's a… it's a non-profit, like, charitable thing.
Bobby Gray: To try to squeak a dollar of profit per coin out of a 1-ounce silver route.
Bobby Gray: I mean, it's hard. Yeah, when you get it all dialed in, and you're doing a million coins a day, sure. Sure, you can make some money with it from time to time, but the market's constantly changing.
Bobby Gray: What happens is, there's a huge demand for silver, everyone and their brother starts their own mint, now there's an over-surplus.
Bobby Gray: of supply, everybody and their brother goes out of business, and to, you know, and there's just a couple guys standing. That was always me. We're always chasing that opportunity. By the time you get into the business and get your factory set up and things working, you've probably already missed the opportunity.
Bobby Gray: So, it's a fool's errand, and I did it for a long time. I did it, back in the days of Mulligan Mint in Dallas, Texas. That ended spectacularly in a failure.
Bobby Gray: I came over to Asia, I set up another factory. I set up one in Thailand, then I set up another one in Singapore, and then I went back to USA, I set up another one when I got back. I couldn't get out of my own way, I couldn't stop setting up these coin factories. Why? Because I knew how to do it, I thought I was good at it, and, you know, from time to time, when you have a good idea about a design, it makes money.
Bobby Gray: But in 2023, I just said, that's it, I can't do it anymore. And I said that.
Bobby Gray: And my wife came to me, and she's like, look, I need a couple more coins. We need some of these 2-ounce coins. We're the only ones that make them. Make those coins. And I said, no.
Bobby Gray: I said I'm done, I'm not doing it, I'm not making the coins, cancel the orders, refund the money, I'm not doing it. I'm done.
Bobby Gray: Okay, fine, but go and make the coins. Alright, I'll do it. I go back to the factory, I fire up the machines, and kaboom!
Bobby Gray: Caster explodes for the last time, and I said, I knew I should have been done.
Bobby Gray: I said I was done, I didn't follow my own advice, the machine blew up once again, and now I'm really done.
Bobby Gray: The universe is trying to tell me something, that's it.
Bobby Gray: And, you know, it's a tough thing with family and with wives and children, being a dad. I might get into complaining about it, in a moment. It's not gonna seem very manly. There's, like, a dad-bro code where we're supposed to keep this stuff
Bobby Gray: buried down deep and not talk about it. You know what I'm talking about out there. Dads, husbands.
Bobby Gray: We'll see if… we'll see if it comes up. It's supposed to be left unsaid, we'll see if we get there. But anyway, in 2023, I said, no more coins. The caster exploded, my big customer wasn't buying my best-selling coin, my back hurts.
Bobby Gray: I'm not… and I'm not making any progress towards this goal of honest money. Yeah, okay, I'm dealing in honest money, but the whole barter thing of my, you know, 2012, 2013 days of complimentary currency, that wasn't really happening, because nobody's doing that. Come on, man, be honest with yourself.
Bobby Gray: No one's doing it. It's hard. It's not easy. All the big opportunities that we had back in the day to do that, they just never materialize, because it's too much work.
Bobby Gray: It doesn't scale. Even if I could do it successfully in one place, it's only one place. Yeah, do I want to make one place better? Sure, of course.
Bobby Gray: Is the world gonna notice? No, absolutely not, and they didn't.
Bobby Gray: And so… I looked at all of that stuff, and I said, man, I gotta get into crypto.
Bobby Gray: I've been around it for years, I understand it better than most.
Bobby Gray: I haven't made the original Bitcoin coin.
Bobby Gray: I've got some street cred in this industry, I…
Bobby Gray: don't know why they're doing it the way that they are. You know, I published a page
Bobby Gray: on the website the other day, talking about the SEC's relationship
Bobby Gray: With crypto, and how it really… ramped up.
Bobby Gray: When the whole… purpose of the industry shifted from digital decentralized peer-to-peer currency to fundraising and ICOs.
Bobby Gray: You know, that's really when the SEC became a lot more interested in the cryptocurrency industry, because it stopped being a currency and started becoming a fundraising mechanism
Bobby Gray: Which is, you know, territory that they're interested in.
Bobby Gray: And so, I know all of this.
Bobby Gray: Man, I got a tech background!
Bobby Gray: And maybe cryptocurrency needs somebody That knows how to actually get an alternative and complementary currency
Bobby Gray: working successfully. That's me. I know how to do that. Now, there are lots of guys out there, like Ron Paul, and Tom Woods, and
Bobby Gray: those guys that talk about economics, monetary policy, Austrian economics, like, they know that stuff way more than I do. But I know the practical side of it.
Bobby Gray: Way more than they do. It's a bold claim, but they didn't start an alternative currency. Even the guy that I learned about
Bobby Gray: you know, some of this stuff from the Liberty Dollar, you know, he didn't, like…
Bobby Gray: really scale his thing. He didn't know how to build a merchant network. He had a couple hundred merchants. I had 30,000 at the height of the open currency standard.
Bobby Gray: you know, how is it that I was able to do that.
Bobby Gray: And nobody else could. I don't know.
Bobby Gray: We'll go through that history later if you want.
Bobby Gray: But I'm looking at crypto, and I'm saying, I think I can get crypto back to its original mission, purpose, intent.
Bobby Gray: And I think that I can, transition myself from this gold and silver and copper career into a cryptocurrency career, and not be made fun of for it.
Bobby Gray: you know, what happens in our industry is, like, the gold and silver guys look at each other, and they're like, you're still gold and silver, right? It's been money for thousands of years, you're… you're committed to that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I also have some… some crypto holdings.
Bobby Gray: sold out, bro. You can't have it both ways. You're either on this end of the spectrum, or that one. Either, you know.
Bobby Gray: I can hold it, gold is tangible, worked as money for thousands of years, or it's digital. Zeros and ones, and it's out there in the cloud somewhere. It's the opposite. These things are opposite ends of the value spectrum. And you can't have your foot in both worlds. You gotta commit.
Bobby Gray: It's with the
Bobby Gray: will have you believe. Well, I'm over here, never crypto, and all of a sudden, I'm starting to, like, transition my way over to this crypto-curious.
Bobby Gray: And now I've gone all in.
Bobby Gray: Still love my gold and silver, still love my gold and silver friends, but now, for sure.
Bobby Gray: I'm crypto all the way. Why? Because I think it's better money than gold and silver ever was.
Bobby Gray: Technology does that. It's not hard to believe. It's like, is anyone out there, like, pounding their fist on the table that the fax machine is the greatest way to communicate with people on the other side of the world in writing?
Bobby Gray: Maybe it is, I don't know. But I would rather use an email, or maybe, like, a text message, or a Telegram chat.
Bobby Gray: You know, that's kind of what it's like. It's not exactly what it's like, but it kind of feels like that. Gold and silver were great. Thousands of years of history proved to us that these things worked as money.
Bobby Gray: But they're not money today.
Bobby Gray: And so I looked at all this, and I said, well, I'm getting out of gold and silver. What am I gonna do next? Am I gonna, like…
Bobby Gray: start a different manufacturing business? No, I can't do that anymore. I got out of that,
Bobby Gray: You know, the exit from that was kind of… pre-driven by COVID.
Bobby Gray: being in Singapore, having the government shut everything down, not be able to just…
Bobby Gray: pack my coin presses and rolling mills and casters and furnaces in my backpack, and go to Norway, or Sweden, or Denmark, or any one of these places that's open for business. I can't do that with a factory.
Bobby Gray: When you're dealing with crypto, you can put your laptop in your backpack, and you can go anywhere in the world,
Bobby Gray: You know, that's ready for you to continue doing your thing. And so…
Bobby Gray: I knew I was getting out of that, I didn't know what I wanted to do next, and then…
Bobby Gray: I…
Bobby Gray: I kind of… I kind of decided that it was time for crypto. Trying to think of the exact…
Bobby Gray: chronological order of events, because they matter a little bit. But I want to pause for a moment and tell you the truth. I've been looking for a path to get into crypto since 2017.
Bobby Gray: In December of 2017, I was invited out to a Bit Club Network event in Korea, South Korea.
Bobby Gray: And I went out there, and I was blown away. Now, I had just pioneered cold storage coins, and I was delivering the first batch of those
Bobby Gray: to Bait Club, my very first customer,
Bobby Gray: in Korea, for a big event that they had. And I wasn't… my first Bitcoin transaction was the person paying for this initial order.
Bobby Gray: And so, you know, I'm really, really, really brand new to it. I've been around it for a little while, but I don't brag about my, like, you know, experiences in crypto before 2017, when I created Cold Storage Points. So I went to this event in Korea, and I looked around, and my eyes were…
Bobby Gray: Saucers.
Bobby Gray: I was blown away with two things.
Bobby Gray: Number one, This passionate community of people out there that were, like.
Bobby Gray: way excited about cryptocurrency, something that wasn't on my radar at all. They filled not a room, not a ballroom, but a convention hall.
Bobby Gray: with probably 10,000 or 15,000 people that were screaming about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Never seen it before.
Bobby Gray: That was number one. And number two is those people were all there because of network marketing.
Bobby Gray: I've been around crypto for a while, and I've been around network marketing for a while. Never meaningful… meaningfully got into either one of those things.
Bobby Gray: I said, there's something here, man. I don't know what it is.
Bobby Gray: But I'm gonna find out.
Bobby Gray: It took me almost 7 years.
Bobby Gray: To figure out what it was.
Bobby Gray: And I… and I dabbled in things across that time. I dabbled in, I don't remember what I dabbled in, but I was messing around for a long time. It's not like I just woke up one morning and somebody left the pamphlet on how to set up TEXITcoin on my desk. Like, I've been messing around for a while.
Bobby Gray: And experimenting, trying different things, but nothing really clicked until the day that I'm sitting there, and I'm tuned in to the Rogan podcast as I'm rolling coins in my factory in McKinney.
Bobby Gray: And the guest on there is Michael Malice.
Bobby Gray: Big fan of Michael Mouse.
Bobby Gray: And… he mentions to Rogan, hey, what do you think about Texan?
Bobby Gray: And I'm like, what did he say? Texit? Yeah, Texit. Like, Brexit. You know how, like, Britain left the EU? What do you think about the idea of, like, Texas
Bobby Gray: secession from the United States. And that was the light bulb moment. That was… that was the…
Bobby Gray: You know, the beginning of the inspiration for the project that we're talking about here today.
Bobby Gray: Why?
Bobby Gray: Because it doesn't have anything to do with crypto, it doesn't have anything to do with network marketing.
Bobby Gray: It's just a word.
Bobby Gray: But it's a word that represents… feeling… A movement and a mission.
Bobby Gray: And when you take a technology, like cryptocurrency, and you take a marketing initiative, like network marketing, and you take a mission.
Bobby Gray: that people like, that they can get behind it, that they can understand, and you put all those things together, you gotta win. You get texted coin.
Bobby Gray: We had a win.
Bobby Gray: And that's when the whole thing really clicked in my mind. I said, technology, marketing strategy, and a good mission. And a good, a good thing to orient ourselves around.
Bobby Gray: And I started Texit Coin, T-E-X-I-T coin. What does it mean?
Bobby Gray: Well, I put out a video, and I said some really crazy stuff in there. Go back and watch the video. We talk about Bitcoin, and how they went wrong, and this incredible plan, and GameStop, and all these other things, and we say, and we know that we're going to be successful because we've got an important mission.
Bobby Gray: And I still… cringe a little bit.
Bobby Gray: when I go into the next line, which is the immediate secession of Texas from the crumbling United States.
Bobby Gray: And I listened to that today, and I'm like, eww.
Bobby Gray: That's pretty… that's pretty, pretty specific. Pretty…
Bobby Gray: pretty, clear as far as what the commitment is. Now, let's pause for a moment and talk about that, how we got there and why it mattered.
Bobby Gray: Remember, this thing is beginning to come together in my mind in 2023. And if you go back and remember what was going on in the world in 2023, we were facing some real challenges. We had Sleepy Joe.
Bobby Gray: Open borders, we had a pretty big mess on our hands.
Bobby Gray: And we felt that pretty severely in Texas, because we had a standoff between the, you know, Texas militia, the Texas National Guard, Texas…
Bobby Gray: I don't know, whatever the, you know, militaristic organizational unit is, maybe it was individuals as well, down there at the southern border, trying to prevent people from crossing.
Bobby Gray: Because this was happening in wholesale numbers.
Bobby Gray: And so, filed suit against the federal government, or they filed suit against Texas, and it was this big ordeal. And I said, man, if this thing continues the way it's going now, I know a couple different things are gonna happen.
Bobby Gray: First of all, the U.S. is going to fail, and second of all.
Bobby Gray: people of Texas are not gonna put up with it forever. They're gonna… they're gonna secede.
Bobby Gray: And I started looking into that, came across the Texas Nationalist Movement, and these Republic of Texas folks, and there's some really great people there, some weird ones as well.
Bobby Gray: But I come to find out that they've already acquired enough signatures in Texas
Bobby Gray: to get Texas secession on the ballot. Like, they have enough signatures to put it to a ballot. You know, there's a mechanism in Texas where if you get enough signatures together, you can get it to go on, like, the ballot. When you go in in November and you vote, you can vote for it.
Bobby Gray: And I don't know what the mechanism is as an outcome of that, if 51 or more percent of people say, yeah, let's get out of here, I don't know if, like, it becomes law or what, but they at least got it to the point where they had enough signatures to get that on the ballot. And the Republican Party, from what I understand, blocked it.
Bobby Gray: And I said, men, these guys are onto something here. And if you ask an average Texan.
Bobby Gray: I'm talking about a Texan. I'm not talking about, like, a Californian transplant. I'm not talking about somebody that showed up there because the hurricane took out their city. I'm talking about, like, a true Texan. If you talk to a Texan, man, most of us are saying, let's go. We don't know what the federal government's doing, we don't understand it, we don't really want to be lumped in with those weirdos.
Bobby Gray: Let's go back to where it was before, let's be our own country once again. That's what Texans say to each other.
Bobby Gray: True Texans. And I mentioned that the other day in the SEC thing, and I was like, hey, wait a minute, aren't you from Texas?
Bobby Gray: So… That's the feeling that we have. We're in trouble, things aren't getting better.
Bobby Gray: We don't see a positive outcome to this
Bobby Gray: It might be time for us to leave. Might be time for a breakup.
Bobby Gray: And Marjorie Taylor Greene, said something like, it's time for a national divorce. And if you do some research into that topic, you come across really, like, two things. One is the idea that every empire in the history of mankind eventually collapses. We all know that in our heart of hearts. We all know that.
Bobby Gray: the U.S. is probably not going to set any records for, you know, time in existence on planet Earth. We did pretty good. The idea of freedom and liberty and a constitutional republic and all that working for 250 years, pretty good.
Bobby Gray: Pretty good. Most countries come and go in less time than that. But an empire less, on average, get this, 250 years, plus or minus 100 years.
Bobby Gray: So, we're right there at the average.
Bobby Gray: And we know in our heart of hearts that it's not gonna go on forever.
Bobby Gray: It would be very uncomfortable if it changed during our lifetime.
Bobby Gray: Because there's not a lot of people that remember the shift of the global power from, you know, Great Britain and over to the United States.
Bobby Gray: That happened. Some people were alive, you know, they're probably 80…
Bobby Gray: 85 years old at this point, but it happened. There was a shift. They may or may not remember. We didn't have the same communication tools that we had… that we have today.
Bobby Gray: But it happens, number one. Number two is, if you look at the, kind of, the cultural makeup of the country, you can see right now that whether we're 50 nifty United States, it doesn't really matter, because you've got the Northeast, and they do things a particular way, and then you've got, kind of, the southern plantation states over there, and then you've got, like, the South and the Deep South, and then you've got, like.
Bobby Gray: the West and, like, the West… like, we've got these different cultural regions. Somebody wrote an article that I saw a number of years ago about how you could really kind of easily divide the United States up into six
Bobby Gray: Different regions that would get along much better than we're all getting along right now as, you know.
Bobby Gray: A whole contiguous, body of people and politics.
Bobby Gray: And so, I looked at those things, I heard them talk about that on the Rogan podcast, and I said, yeah.
Bobby Gray: That's gonna happen.
Bobby Gray: And these guys at the Texas Nationalist Movement have already kind of laid the foundation for it, they just need a little bit of financial help.
Bobby Gray: to get there, whether it's, you know, promoting candidates that would support putting the idea or the question of Texas on the ballot, or it's lobbying for that in Texas, you know, legislature. Like, they don't have any money.
Bobby Gray: And when you don't have any money, you become disenfranchised. You're… you're an outsider.
Bobby Gray: well, I know how to make money. I'm really good at making money. I've made lots of money over the years. I've lost lots of money, but I'm really good at making money.
Bobby Gray: And I'm on to something here. I don't know exactly what it is, but crypto is a great technology, network marketing is a great way of connecting people together, bringing together a community, having fun, making money, all these things are good.
Bobby Gray: If I can tie these two together with this mission, I think we got something.
Bobby Gray: And So I started TEXITcoin.
Bobby Gray: to bring those things together. Now.
Bobby Gray: Here's the problem. It's the reason we're talking about it. We don't have much time left to talk about it, because I got another call, I think, in 14 minutes. Somebody scheduled a call. I'm like, no, no, no, it's the last call. I'll definitely be off in, like, an hour. Don't worry about it.
Bobby Gray: But anyway, I put these things together, and it worked. And I went to my neighbor, and I went to my daughter, and I went to some friends, and they said, Texas, what's that mean? Well, it's like Texas secession. That sounds good, let's go.
Bobby Gray: This country's in trouble, the writing's on the wall, it's time to… to move on, and… Texas.
Bobby Gray: the mission, the word, the mission, it made sense. And if you look at something like Great Britain, Brexit, doing it successfully.
Bobby Gray: you start to think that it's inside of the realm of possibility. Well, is that even legal? I mean, didn't we try that a number of years ago and it didn't work out so well?
Bobby Gray: I don't know if it's legal, but it might be important. It might have to happen. It might be something that needs to transpire in the course of human events in order for us to…
Bobby Gray: Create a higher likelihood of having freedom and liberty in our lifetimes.
Bobby Gray: Whether we like it or not, that might be the outcome that's required in order for us to create
Bobby Gray: A higher likelihood of a brighter future for our children and future generations.
Bobby Gray: I don't know. I've never done it.
Bobby Gray: Very few people have done it.
Bobby Gray: Are the people of Britain better off today than they were 5 years ago?
Bobby Gray: I don't know. I wasn't there 5 years ago. I was there last week or two, and it was really nice.
Bobby Gray: I was like, this place is really wonderful. I don't know if I'm in, like, the right area. We were staying kind of in the west end.
Bobby Gray: But it was quite lovely. It was like New York and Paris.
Bobby Gray: Got together, had a baby, and sent that baby off to, like, a really good prep school.
Bobby Gray: It's just clean, pretty, it kind of felt local, kind of felt like, you know, parks everywhere, just…
Bobby Gray: I liked it. So I don't know if it's better than it was or worse, I can't speak to that, but I thought it was nice. Not moving there, just thought it was nice.
Bobby Gray: Anyway, so I look at this, and I go, this matters. This is an important mission, I'm talking to people, they like the idea, and then all of a sudden, Trump gets elected.
Bobby Gray: And we all look at each other and we go, well, now what?
Bobby Gray: Well, now what? Because he's gonna make America great again, bro.
Bobby Gray: And if he does, it would be really silly for Texas to kind of, like, Hit the road!
Bobby Gray: Don't leave yet, hang out, we're gonna make America great again. We've got a golden renaissance coming our way, the likes of which we haven't seen since the Roaring Twenties, they said.
Bobby Gray: Now… Here's the question. 153 of you, I'll put it out to a poll.
Bobby Gray: Let's do a poll. Where are my poll tools? Polls and quizzes.
Bobby Gray: And I don't want your honest feedback on this.
Bobby Gray: Is the USA better off now well, let me rephrase that.
Bobby Gray: Did you, we, the USA, get more out of this new administration or less.
Bobby Gray: Choice one, more.
Bobby Gray: Choice 2, less.
Bobby Gray: I don't know if it's required. I'm gonna save it, and I'm going to… Can I publish it?
Bobby Gray: Do you see it?
Bobby Gray: Is it there yet?
Bobby Gray: How do I publish it? Are you guys able to see it?
Bobby Gray: Are we… Better. Oh. Okay.
Bobby Gray: I, I don't know if it's published. Save as webinar poll.
Bobby Gray: Okay.
Bobby Gray: launch.
Bobby Gray: So the question to the 153 of you that are out there, and I'm serious about it, guys, I'm not joking about it.
Bobby Gray: Did you, we, or the USA get more out of this administration, or less than we expected?
Bobby Gray: And here's the reason why I'm asking the question, the reason why it matters. Because as soon as Trump was elected in November, there was a complete shift
Bobby Gray: In our narrative, we started going through website, we started kind of backburnering content about secession. I haven't remade videos, you know, they're still out there from day one, but I'm thinking about it.
Bobby Gray: But as soon as Trump got elected, we…
Bobby Gray: stopped aggressively talking about Texas secession.
Bobby Gray: And that happened for, kind of, a couple reasons. Number one is, like, we don't want to get in trouble for this, you know? It was all fun and games when there were, like, six of us sitting around in, like, a Saturday morning, like, coffee meetup.
Bobby Gray: Talking about rah-rah, we're gonna leave, we're gonna be our own country again. It's a little different when we've got money, and a big group, and billboards, and supercars.
Bobby Gray: And… so… There was some…
Bobby Gray: real concern about, not public safety, but, like, are we allowed to talk about this? Is that, like, a constitutionally protected right of ours?
Bobby Gray: Aren't the first couple lines in the Declaration of Independence something about, like, when in the course of human events a government gets out of control, it is our responsibility to change or alter that government?
Bobby Gray: And I'm not quoting.
Bobby Gray: But that was the first thing that went through our minds. And the second thing was like, well, hold on a second here. Hold on a second.
Bobby Gray: Because if we're going to make America great again, then maybe we need to pause for a second and not be looking for the exit.
Bobby Gray: And so we backburnered. We kind of shifted that thing about tech sit…
Bobby Gray: And Texas Secession completely out of the narrative.
Bobby Gray: And… The conversation became a lot more about… Money.
Bobby Gray: Specifically, honest money. I'm gonna let that poll play out in the background. 77% of you think we got more out of the administration than we expected. But let me see if I can come up with my whiteboard.
Bobby Gray: Try to have.
Bobby Gray: Something explained here in a whiteboard. New whiteboard. There we go.
Bobby Gray: seeing my whiteboard. Hopefully you can see my whiteboard. So, I want to talk to you guys about, kind of, the, like.
Bobby Gray: The spectrum of… Just wanna draw. Just give me the ability to draw.
Bobby Gray: Gracer, highlighter, no, pen, purple, dark blue, colorblind over here, give me nice, thick stroke, there we go.
Bobby Gray: Because we've got a spectrum of, like, purpose.
Bobby Gray: And on one end of the spectrum, over here, you've got… Altruism. Pure altruism.
Bobby Gray: And on the other end of the spectrum, over here, maybe we'll make it red.
Bobby Gray: You've got, like, true psychopathic Selfishness.
Bobby Gray: And… Somewhere in the middle, you've got kind of this, like, line of…
Bobby Gray: Hey, doing something for me.
Bobby Gray: over here, or I'm doing something for somebody or something else.
Bobby Gray: over here.
Bobby Gray: Can we see me primarily now, or are we still looking at the whiteboard?
Bobby Gray: I don't know.
Bobby Gray: I clicked off of my whiteboard, and I'm wondering if I can see… me.
Bobby Gray: more.
Bobby Gray: Jen has a hand raised. I don't know what the raised hand means. Can you see me, or a whiteboard? If you can see me, put a hand up.
Bobby Gray: Okay. Okay, hands are going up. Thank you, thank you. So, we look at this spectrum.
Bobby Gray: and we say, okay, what are we doing, why are we doing it? Over here, on this end, we've got, you know, like, we're doing it for the baby penguins, for the baby penguins. We are dedicating our life
Bobby Gray: My life, our lives, our life's work for some sort of thankless cause.
Bobby Gray: Maybe people on planet Earth will know, maybe they won't, but it's not about me, it's not about us, it's about the baby penguins. We're all the way down here on this pure, altruist, Mother Teresa-esque end of the spectrum. Or…
Bobby Gray: We're doing it on the far other end of the spectrum, down here.
Bobby Gray: for our own personal benefit. Now, if you go too far, you're like, over here, this is where you get to, like, psychopath.
Bobby Gray: I don't care who it hurts.
Bobby Gray: I don't care what the cost is, I'm going for personal wealth, fame, fortune, at any expense.
Bobby Gray: It doesn't matter if I have to lie, cheat, or steal to get there, that's the goal. I am…
Bobby Gray: All the way on that end of the spectrum.
Bobby Gray: Don't quote me on that. But that's what the other end of the spectrum is.
Bobby Gray: You know, the other end of the spectrum we'll call, like, you know, psychopathic wealth, Fame and fortune.
Bobby Gray: And you know some of those people.
Bobby Gray: I know some of those people.
Bobby Gray: Some people accuse me of being that person.
Bobby Gray: And so…
Bobby Gray: That's… those are the ends of the spectrum. We're doing it for something other than ourselves, the greater good, or we're doing it for our own personal benefit. Now, the personal benefit area of this chart is in the middle, or sorry, is in the left side.
Bobby Gray: So, over here is your personal benefit area.
Bobby Gray: personal benefit.
Bobby Gray: And so, we would like to think that the work that we're doing is…
Bobby Gray: Well, let's hold off on that for a second.
Bobby Gray: But this is the personal benefit area, and you can be really close to the center line, which is what we call a win-win.
Bobby Gray: A win-win is… it's good for me, it's good for everybody.
Bobby Gray: And about, kind of, halfway down the personal benefit area, we can draw a line of, like, what I'll call ecological consequences.
Bobby Gray: ecological consequences.
Bobby Gray: And… what I mean when I put this in here is that when we start tipping over to
Bobby Gray: this side of the spectrum, we're thinking less about
Bobby Gray: Consequences, and we're thinking more about ourselves.
Bobby Gray: And so, we know that we're doing this thing because there's something in it for us, me, personally.
Bobby Gray: And we are thinking more about ecological consequences as we start getting to this line here. Now.
Bobby Gray: Just so you know.
Bobby Gray: I didn't learn this chart from anywhere, I'm making this chart up as I go. I got a little bit of a sketch of it on my sheet here, but I didn't read this in a book yesterday, so we're just gonna make it up, and I have no idea if it will become some sort of, like, amazing thing that the internet, like, learns from forever and ever and ever, like…
Bobby Gray: The Hot Crazy Matrix.
Bobby Gray: Have you seen the Hot Crazy Matrix? Go look that up. Really spectacular work that just was born out of some guy in his, like, office meeting room on a whiteboard one day.
Bobby Gray: Over here, this is where we have what I call the personal sacrifice area.
Bobby Gray: And so, on the…
Bobby Gray: For the baby penguin side of the chart, we've got personal sacrifice, and on the other side, we've got the personal benefit.
Bobby Gray: And somewhere about halfway down the personal benefit area there, we get to the point where we think less and less and less about the consequences, the ecological consequences. What does ecological consequences mean? It doesn't mean, like, are we, like, hurting the environment? It means, how is it that what we're doing is affecting the people around us?
Bobby Gray: the things that we do, the decisions we make, the actions we take, what does that mean for our family? What does it mean for our community? What does it mean for the environment and the baby penguins? What does it mean for, you know, the future of humanity? Like, what does it mean for things outside of my personal, you know.
Bobby Gray: goals and desires. How does this affect the things and the people around me? That's what I mean when I say ecological consequences.
Bobby Gray: So, you've got this ecological consequences line, and you can shift it around a little bit on your spectrum, but…
Bobby Gray: But I want you to know at least that it exists. And so, if you're a psychopath, your ecological consequences line is probably all the way down here, and you ain't thinking a whole lot about what you do and how it affects other people and stuff.
Bobby Gray: And so, you know, this is like, hey, I want to get rich, but I also believe in personal responsibility. Liberty means responsibility, that's why most people dread it, they say.
Bobby Gray: What does that mean? It means that, like, well, I want to get rich, but I don't want to hurt people, I don't want to break the law, I don't want to lie, cheat, or steal. You know, a psychopath that's only committed to personal wealth, fame, and fortune wouldn't care about those consequences. You and I do. That's what makes us not psychopaths.
Bobby Gray: Give yourself a pat on the back, in case you were wondering and curious.
Bobby Gray: Anyway… I want to talk about this, because I want you to know that My, my goal today
Bobby Gray: Is a lot more… Driven by money.
Bobby Gray: And… profit.
Bobby Gray: Then, it probably was at the beginning of this project.
Bobby Gray: And… Maybe or maybe not, more or less than you thought.
Bobby Gray: And part of the reason for that is because as this new administration came in in November 2024, and we stopped talking so much about the mission, like, I was the man on the mission.
Bobby Gray: Back then. Then all of a sudden, it got kind of backburner.
Bobby Gray: And as we've put it out to a poll a moment ago…
Bobby Gray: We see that the majority of you are more…
Bobby Gray: Satisfied with this administration and the results.
Bobby Gray: than you originally thought you would be. Did you, we, the USA, get more out of this new administration, or less
Bobby Gray: than we thought. 79% of you have said more.
Bobby Gray: 21% said less.
Bobby Gray: The poll is now over. Thank you for participating in that poll. We'll have another one in just a moment.
Bobby Gray: But the point is that when we started this thing, it was all about the mission. We had this financial technology, we had a marketing strategy, and we had a mission. The mission was Texas.
Bobby Gray: And about November 2024, that mission got largely shifted to the extreme side.
Bobby Gray: Which means that if we look at that incentive chart, that, you know, what motivates us chart, you know, we're not doing it for the mission.
Bobby Gray: We don't even talk about the mission anymore. What are we doing it for? We're doing it for the money.
Bobby Gray: pretend all we want, but really, the majority of what brings us here are the other things that we talked about. Making friends, having a good time, and making money.
Bobby Gray: And I want you to know, I want you to hear it from me first, I don't want you to have to worry your…
Bobby Gray: you know, be curious about it. I'm here for the money.
Bobby Gray: And that's a really important thing, and I want you to see it as a virtue, because, you know, having a real and honest and true incentive, like a financial benefit.
Bobby Gray: Is what keeps me motivated.
Bobby Gray: It motivates most of us.
Bobby Gray: Some people it doesn't. Some people want to save the baby penguins.
Bobby Gray: Help the poor, the needy, that's not me.
Bobby Gray: I started this because I ended my career in coin manufacturing, I knew I needed to do something to provide for my family, I wanted to have more than less, I wanted to have it sooner than later, and I wanted to have it than not have it.
Bobby Gray: And I saw an opportunity to do all of those things, but it only came together with the mission.
Bobby Gray: Which we haven't talked about in almost 2 years.
Bobby Gray: This is what creates, kind of, this… this…
Bobby Gray: imbalance for us, this injustice. We've been moving forward With this financial incentive.
Bobby Gray: that all of a sudden now has become a real challenge. We're not making the same kind of money that we were. I'm not.
Bobby Gray: Anywhere close to what I was doing back in September of last year. Man, those were good times!
Bobby Gray: Paid all the bills, paid the commissions, promoted the heck out of the coin, sent 165 people to the other side of the world to party!
Bobby Gray: For weeks, for 3 weeks, 2-3 weeks!
Bobby Gray: We're doing really well.
Bobby Gray: Well, we're not today.
Bobby Gray: Things are starting to come back, and it's good.
Bobby Gray: But today, it's not as much about the money as it was before. Now, I'm committed to it because…
Bobby Gray: of a lot of things, and I think that there is a huge financial upside still.
Bobby Gray: In fact, there's more of an upside today, getting involved at $0.10 than there was getting involved in $7. You know, we go from 10 cents to $7, that's a 70X return, that's a win for anybody.
Bobby Gray: If you got in at $7, you're looking at it and saying, man, for us to go from 7 to 16, that's only, like, a 2.5X.
Bobby Gray: For us to go from 10 cents to 16, that's like 160x. A lot more upside today.
Bobby Gray: than there was back in September.
Bobby Gray: Let's go.
Bobby Gray: But the point is that we've been operating for a while without a real, true, clear focus on our mission. Now, that's changed a little bit in the last couple months.
Bobby Gray: Because the mission today, and the mission as we started to shift it back when the administration came in.
Bobby Gray: Became more about honest money.
Bobby Gray: Than it ever has been.
Bobby Gray: That's been my life's work, that's been my passion, it's what I testified about in Congress back in 2012.
Bobby Gray: I think we can get there, I truly believe that we can get there through crypto. I think crypto is the most honest money Earth has ever seen. You can make a fake gold coin.
Bobby Gray: But you can't make a fake Bitcoin.
Bobby Gray: It's a little challenging, it's confusing from time to time. There's on-ramps and off-ramps, plenty of problems, scams.
Bobby Gray: Things to watch out for.
Bobby Gray: But what's the saying? Something like, 15% or 20% of all the gold held in vaults worldwide is fake gold? We don't even know it.
Bobby Gray: kind of turn a blind eye to it. We're like, well, we don't really know if that's real.
Bobby Gray: Let's hope that it is.
Bobby Gray: So the conversation became less and less about Texas, Texas secession, and more and more about honest money.
Bobby Gray: And I was the first one to say, Texas doesn't mean Texas leaving the U.S, it means an exit from financial tyranny.
Bobby Gray: That sounds good, let's go with that.
Bobby Gray: And so… what I would like us to do… As we begin to… wind up…
Bobby Gray: today's call and the marathon is I want us to think long and hard about our mission.
Bobby Gray: Because the mission matters, the mission is what brings people together. When the money is slow, you know, think about it, you're saving the whales. It's a thankless job, you're probably not getting paid a whole lot, you do it because your heart's in it.
Bobby Gray: And if you find out that that was all a scam, and the whales are unsavable, or don't need to be saved in the first place, you quit.
Bobby Gray: Because the mission's gone, it's changed. You're… you're attracted to the work because of the mission, because of how it makes you feel.
Bobby Gray: And so we need to have a mission. Whether that mission is Texas Secession, or that mission is honest money, or something new, we have to have a mission that keeps us focused on a specific goal.
Bobby Gray: I like honest money. That's my favorite part.
Bobby Gray: But do you like honest money?
Bobby Gray: have to do with Texitcoin?
Bobby Gray: will people immediately identify that our movement is about honest money through cryptocurrency when they hear Texit?
Bobby Gray: Should we become more deeply involved?
Bobby Gray: in the concept of Texas secession. 21% of the people that participated in the call
Bobby Gray: Think that we are not better off.
Bobby Gray: Than we were.
Bobby Gray: Before this administration came into office.
Bobby Gray: Personally?
Bobby Gray: I feel really let down.
Bobby Gray: I'm not gonna say much about it, but I feel really embarrassed.
Bobby Gray: But I drank the Kool-Aid, man.
Bobby Gray: Got myself excited.
Bobby Gray: Let me put all my stock in it.
Bobby Gray: I didn't put all my eggs in that basket. I don't vote. I haven't voted in years. I don't participate in that kind of stuff. But I did get my hopes up, and I feel stupid about that. Really stupid.
Bobby Gray: And it's not because of the administration, guys.
Bobby Gray: It's… it's because we are living at the end of…
Bobby Gray: the empire story. Just go back and see what they did when Rome was burning. See what it was like there. I have no idea if it's true, I didn't write those books, I wasn't there to witness it. Apparently, there's a guy on TikTok that's able to time travel, he makes videos about it.
Bobby Gray: But I wasn't there. I don't know firsthand. All I can tell you is what I believe from the things that I have come across. But I would say that we're going through very similar, kind of strange times today as they probably went through back when they were experiencing the end of their empire, and it took hundreds of years.
Bobby Gray: For that to come to an end.
Bobby Gray: But, but I'm… what I'm saying to you right now, and I, and I,
Bobby Gray: proceed with caution. What I'm saying to you right now is that we need to really connect with the mission.
Bobby Gray: Because it's the mission that's going to continue to get this project through tough times.
Bobby Gray: And the mission today is honest money.
Bobby Gray: And I want to bring your attention back to the dots.
Bobby Gray: Let's go with dark blue. We've got two dots.
Bobby Gray: And those dots are represented by these Texas stars.
Bobby Gray: And the dots are… what… I based this entire project on in the first place.
Bobby Gray: I'm not very good at drawing, so try not to judge.
Bobby Gray: The dots are the mine, Building the mine, 100 million megahash.
Bobby Gray: 100 million mega hash.
Bobby Gray: Now, I like to represent million with an M, but I'm told that it's represented with two M's.
Bobby Gray: No idea.
Bobby Gray: If we build a 100 million megahash mine, we will have… a top…
Bobby Gray: 100 coin with a billion dollar value. That is the bet.
Bobby Gray: That is the gamble. And I don't understand why we represent billion with a single B and not two B's.
Bobby Gray: Or not 2Ps? That is the question.
Bobby Gray: But these are the dots.
Bobby Gray: this was my gamble, this was my theory, this was my projection, this is my, you know, basic premise for this project. If we build a 100 million mega-hash mine.
Bobby Gray: We will have a top 100 coin with about a billion dollar value. Now, we might have to be in the top 50 today, the industry has contracted quite a bit since we set out to start this project. But that was the… that was the gamble. That was the bet.
Bobby Gray: If we build a 100 million megahash mine, we'll have a billion dollar coin. Now, what is it that connects these two dots? Is it the mission?
Bobby Gray: Maybe I need to type instead of draw.
Bobby Gray: Or… is it… the… kind of the benefits or virtue of the mind. Over here, we've got trust.
Bobby Gray: We've got efficiency.
Bobby Gray: We've got speed. We've got convenience.
Bobby Gray: If we build this mine.
Bobby Gray: And we put together this trustworthy, you know, good network, as we talked about… what was it, on, wednesday? Wednesday. We put that together.
Bobby Gray: Then we will have…
Bobby Gray: A product that people want to use, a network that people want to use and build on.
Bobby Gray: If we build this 100 million mega ash mine, we build it all over the state of Texas, we build it, it's big, it's reliable, it's redundant, it's got speed, it's got efficiency, it's got convenience, it has established trust with the community, and people are building on our network. If we do that.
Bobby Gray: We'll have such an incredible amount of demand.
Bobby Gray: That people have to buy our coin in massive quantities to use it, And we'll win!
Bobby Gray: That's the theory. Now… What's the other part of that?
Bobby Gray: The other part of that is that
Bobby Gray: By going out there, building this mine, and charging $995 per seat on the rocket ship.
Bobby Gray: $9.95. I need my pen.
Bobby Gray: We've got money. Massive, massive amounts of money.
Bobby Gray: And as we talked about a moment ago.
Bobby Gray: We look at that incentive chart, we're not here to save the whales, guys, that's somebody else's project. We're here to make money. We're here because there's something in it for us. There's an incentive that has a personal benefit. Now, depending on how far down that side of the chart you are will determine how much of, like, a money-crazy psychopath you are. I'm pretty far down!
Bobby Gray: At this point right now, I'm so committed to the mission that I'm not spending
Bobby Gray: The day with my daughter on her 21st birthday.
Bobby Gray: I'm here because I'm committed to our mission, and our primary incentive out of this mission right now is to make money.
Bobby Gray: And if I told you anything other than that, it would be a lie.
Bobby Gray: And if you're heartbroken from hearing that Bobby's in this primarily to make money, But I've let you down.
Bobby Gray: And you missed a call somewhere where I talked about this a thousand times. This is not something new. We're in to make money.
Bobby Gray: We want to do good, we want to have positive impact on
Bobby Gray: Our communities, as we do that, we think we can do more of that with more money.
Bobby Gray: As has, of course, been the case, we've proven that already.
Bobby Gray: So let's not split hairs about that today, but…
Bobby Gray: Let's go back to the fact that when we have a 100 million megahash mine built, we will have hundreds of millions of dollars
Bobby Gray: Even today, we would have more than $100 million, probably more like $150 million
Bobby Gray: Set aside for marketing and promotion money to get us To this goal.
Bobby Gray: So, why are these dots here, and how do we connect them? Well, we connect them with
Bobby Gray: Building a good, solid network, getting our utility and our usability up.
Bobby Gray: And using a massive amount of money to… Sponsor Formula 1 teams.
Bobby Gray: to… Can you guys see my whiteboard?
Bobby Gray: Was I not presenting any whiteboard the whole time?
Bobby Gray: That's embarrassing.
Bobby Gray: Oh man, hopefully you guys could see it.
Bobby Gray: I don't know what the raised hands mean. Hopefully you can see it.
Bobby Gray: Anyway… to promote
Bobby Gray: You know, we talked to the experts in the beginning. They said it would cost a million dollars of pump money to get this thing up to the billion dollar value place on page one.
Bobby Gray: With 100 million, could we go to the top 50? Could we go to the top 20?
Bobby Gray: If we have trust and efficiency and speed and convenience and a working network with utility and purpose.
Bobby Gray: Could we get there?
Bobby Gray: Cost is also a factor that drives value.
Bobby Gray: What does it cost for us to produce a coin?
Bobby Gray: If you look at the cost of producing a coin on the Bitcoin network, it's very high.
Bobby Gray: You wouldn't sell a Bitcoin for below cost, you wouldn't mind it if you weren't able to do it profitably.
Bobby Gray: But the question today, on the last moment of our call, last couple moments of our call, is how important is the mission in this conversation?
Bobby Gray: Do we need to pause for a moment and re-evaluate the mission? When we started, it was about Texit.
Bobby Gray: It was about Texas leaving the United States. That is not something we've talked about since November of 2024.
Bobby Gray: Should we start taking some of our budget on that proof thing and putting it towards Sponsoring candidates?
Bobby Gray: slobbying Congress to get that question of Texas secession on the bill. And that is going to be our next question for the 140 people that are still tuned in here.
Bobby Gray: Let's get a new poll.
Bobby Gray: new poll.
Bobby Gray: Poll question. Should we… no.
Bobby Gray: Money used, question mark.
Bobby Gray: Single question. Should we start… using resources.
Bobby Gray: to… Support Texas… Texas First.
Bobby Gray: or TX Independence, movements… Initiatives… don't worry about the spelling on this stuff. Initiatives… initiatives, and… Efforts.
Bobby Gray: Heck yeah!
Bobby Gray: Absolutely not.
Bobby Gray: There you go.
Bobby Gray: Save it as a webinar poll, and let…
Bobby Gray: Launch it, there you go. That's the last question for us to wrestle with today.
Bobby Gray: We talked about this from the beginning.
Bobby Gray: We haven't had it on our front burner for a while. The mission that we've been telling people is honest money, and of course, that's very, very true.
Bobby Gray: But… As we wrap up.
Bobby Gray: our marathon week, and we look towards our bright future, and we start thinking about, where is this coming from, Bobby? You're asking us to stop and, like, go all the way to the deep roots of this project on, like, a Thursday night?
Bobby Gray: He didn't give us any heads up, no warning, nothing.
Bobby Gray: what I'm working on right now… Is the plan… for our emergence.
Bobby Gray: From the last couple months of the cloud that's been over our head, from the uncertainty, from the price dropping from $657 all the way down.
Bobby Gray: To where it is, at 10 cents and below.
Bobby Gray: We need a plan! What's the plan?
Bobby Gray: How are we gonna climb, claw our way back?
Bobby Gray: to a leading cryptocurrency. 82% of you say it's not about Texas secession.
Bobby Gray: It's very similar to the 79% of you that said that USA is better off now than we were
Bobby Gray: Just a couple years ago.
Bobby Gray: Or we've gotten more out of administration than we expected.
Bobby Gray: So, this is an important question.
Bobby Gray: And here's the bad news. The poll, doesn't really matter.
Bobby Gray: It's not that I'm not taking your consideration… your ideas and thoughts and feedback into consideration, it's that we have too small of a sample right now. We've got 50,000 plus members, 140 of you have participated in this call. You're probably the most active people, so I do value your input and feedback.
Bobby Gray: But we really need to stop and do a deep dive into this question. As it… relates to the…
Bobby Gray: Plans that are coming together right now on how to win.
Bobby Gray: How to put our current challenges behind us and claw our way back.
Bobby Gray: to where we were before, and well beyond. That's the goal, that's what we want to do. I'm in it for the money.
Bobby Gray: But I also am at that point where I'm considering the ecological consequences of my actions and decisions, how they affect our project, how they affect you, how they affect the lives of the people that we're going to come across as we continue to succeed in our efforts to promote and market Texit Coin.
Bobby Gray: And so, we take all that information, we take that feedback, and we say, okay, good, we know who we are, we know what we're doing, we know why we're doing it.
Bobby Gray: Let's go.
Bobby Gray: Let's take all the stuff that we've figured out in these last couple months, and let's make a plan to win.
Bobby Gray: What are the important elements of that? If Texas secession is no longer an important element to that, fine. Do we change our name? Maybe, maybe not.
Bobby Gray: Probably not.
Bobby Gray: But we do have to round up this information, round up the feedback, round up the ideas, and we have to make a plan.
Bobby Gray: You guys are looking forward to…
Bobby Gray: our bright future the same way that I am.
Bobby Gray: And sometimes I don't have all the answers, sometimes I share my inner feelings with you and ask for feedback, and this is one of those times.
Bobby Gray: And so, thank you for the feedback, thank you for tuning in to Marathon Week, thanks for sticking around and going through 5 days of this kind of stuff. We really haven't had a lot of time to connect.
Bobby Gray: And,
Bobby Gray: and just talk in a while. We've been on the go, we've been, dealing with all kinds of stuff, time zones have been off.
Bobby Gray: But here we are on our last day of marathon week, and we've got a little bit of time to think through some of this stuff. And like I said, guys, we're not making any decisions today, we're just stopping and pausing for a moment, and looking around.
Bobby Gray: And evaluating the ecological consequences of the things that we've done. Have we done good? Have we done bad? Are we better off for the work that we've done, or are we worse off for the work that we've done?
Bobby Gray: If we're not psychopaths, we're gonna stop, and we're gonna look, and we're gonna say, what are we doing? Why are we doing it? Who are we helping? Who are we hurting? Are we doing more good than harm, or harm than good?
Bobby Gray: I'm not saying the answers to those questions would cause us to quit.
Bobby Gray: I'm saying that answers to those questions will cause us to come up with the ideas we need to have a better plan for tomorrow.
Bobby Gray: And I don't…
Bobby Gray: always have all the plans, and I don't have a 5-year playbook in front of me that says, oh, we're on, you know, Season 3, Chapter 2, Paragraph 7.
Bobby Gray: Some of this stuff we make up as we go, we talk about it when we make it up as we go. We don't have all the answers, we're figuring this stuff out together.
Bobby Gray: As we've done largely since day one.
Bobby Gray: But we need a plan, and the plan's gotta be good, and we gotta consider the ecological consequences of our plans and our actions, or we are psychopaths, and we are only in it for the money, which is not true.
Bobby Gray: I don't think it's true for me, and I don't think it's true for you.
Bobby Gray: I think that we really do, in our heart of hearts, believe that we have the tools in our hands today
Bobby Gray: to make the world a better place. And, if we're right, we win.
Bobby Gray: How much?
Bobby Gray: Million bucks? Six million bucks? A hundred million dollars? I don't know.
Bobby Gray: I do know in crypto, the numbers are crazy, and the possibilities are almost endless!
Bobby Gray: Is that in our future? I think it is.
Bobby Gray: Why? Because we're here, we've got a great community, we're working hard, we're making major, major improvements, we're industry… we're up there with the best of them in the industry at this point.
Bobby Gray: We were way behind for a while. We caught up, and now we might even be in the lead. And we've got resources. You're gonna find out how much in just the next couple days.
Bobby Gray: We got what it takes to win.
Bobby Gray: Are our motives… Align properly with the direction we want to go.
Bobby Gray: This is an opportunity for us to pause for a minute, reflect, look back, look forward, just briefly!
Bobby Gray: This is not Monday morning quarterback time. We're not here to do a deep dive through every decision that was made all the way back to January 26th of 2024.
Bobby Gray: We're gonna glance back.
Bobby Gray: Learn from the things that we've gone through.
Bobby Gray: I make a plan TODAY that takes us into a bright future tomorrow.
Bobby Gray: It's a journey.
Bobby Gray: We're going through it together. I told you from day one that we would hold your hand as we take this journey. This is a moment that we are holding hands, and we're saying, let's figure it out, guys.
Bobby Gray: I had an idea at the beginning, it got us really far. Is it gonna be the same thing that gets us to the goal? I don't know.
Bobby Gray: Whatever it is, let's figure it out together.
Bobby Gray: Log into the systems, tune into the channels, we're trying to streamline things, we're trying to get this information in the right place so that you can digest it, internalize it, think about it.
Bobby Gray: and communicate.
Bobby Gray: Have a conversation about it.
Bobby Gray: That's all we got.
Bobby Gray: You, me, and this transparent, project of ours.
Bobby Gray: That's done great things and expected to do even more great in the future.
Bobby Gray: I don't have all the answers, guys.
Bobby Gray: I got a good idea.
Bobby Gray: I got some good ideas, I think we got a lot of aces up our sleeve. I don't think we've used any of the aces that are up our sleeve.
Bobby Gray: But now is the time for us to start thinking about the future, because we're seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, the dragons that showed up in our path were not as scary as we thought.
Bobby Gray: We're making it.
Bobby Gray: It has not cost us nothing.
Bobby Gray: We're paying the price for it, but we're making it.
Bobby Gray: I'm proud of you. I hope you're proud of me.
Bobby Gray: As your founder and fearless leader, to continue to talk about this stuff with you so that we can figure out
Bobby Gray: How to reach the goal.
Bobby Gray: The work continues, guys. Day in, day out. This is not our last call ever. This is the wrap-up of Marathon Week. Iskander payouts begin tomorrow. Please check your accounts. MineTXC account is going to be completely separate from Iskander stuff.
Bobby Gray: Don't worry, MindTXE friends, you're not getting left behind. There's more in store for you. There's a lot more coming across the board. We're getting into Crypto U, we're getting into CryptoPop, we're getting into StreamTXC. We have a lot going for us.
Bobby Gray: Our future today is just as bright or brighter than it's ever been
Bobby Gray: Going all the way back to day one.
Bobby Gray: We've got great people, we've got great leadership, and we've got you.
Bobby Gray: Together.
Bobby Gray: We will continue to expect uncommon results.
Bobby Gray: Let's do it. Thanks so much for tuning in, Bobby Gray. It is… Thursday?
Bobby Gray: June 18th. Happy birthday to my daughter, happy birthday to AJ, happy birthday to the other people on planet Earth that are celebrating something special today. Thanks for tuning in, and I will catch you guys again, probably on Tuesday. Alright, have a great night.