BTC Sessions - Is It Over For Gold? James Lavish Exposes $3T Bitcoin Signal Nobody Sees
Episode Date: March 19, 2026Is gold losing its edge… as Bitcoin gains momentum?James Lavish reveals a potential $3 trillion signal that could point to a major shift from gold into Bitcoin and digital assets. As capital rotates... and macro conditions change, some believe Bitcoin could outperform gold in the years ahead. Is this the beginning of a massive Bitcoin vs gold transition?👉 Join BTC Sessions as we break down this hidden Bitcoin signal and what it means for investors.--BOOK private one-on-one sessions with BITCOIN MENTOR! Learn self custody, hardware, multisig, lightning, privacy, running a node, and plenty more - all from a team of top notch educators that I've personally vetted.https://bitcoinmentor.io/—------------------------------FOLLOW BTC Sessions on X: x.com/BTCsessions—------------------------------SHOW SPONSORS:BITCOIN WELL BUY BITCOINhttps://qrco.de/bfiDC6COINKITE/COLDCARD (5% discount):https://store.coinkite.com/promo/BTCSessions ABUNDANT MINES:https://qrco.de/bgYKPBAQUA WALLEThttps://qrco.de/bfiD8gNUNCHUK HONEYBADGER INHERITANCEhttps://qrco.de/bfiDARHODLHODL NO KYC P2P EXCHANGEhttps://hodlhodl.com/join/BTCSESSIONDEBIFI LOANShttps://qrco.de/bfiDCp#btc #bitcoin #crypto
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What's up everybody? Welcome to the show. Gold just went from Darling to disaster.
Turns out when the whole world piles into the same trade, it stops working.
Now, Bitcoin last year took it on the chin. So is it magic internet money's time to shine?
Also, Russia shuts down the internet. Police are now doing house calls for Canadian social media posts
and how to find out if your Bitcoin stash is private or a privacy nightmare.
Drop a like on the video and strap in.
I'm Ben with the BTC sessions.
This is your weekly session.
All right.
I want to welcome, of course, to the stage, my co-host with the most, Mr. Nathan Fitzsimmons,
BTC mentor.
How you doing, man?
I'm doing pretty good.
Do you see that Nick Shirley is getting into pallet of care now?
I did see that.
It seems like that's a lucrative business to be in.
Aging population, a lot of money to be made there.
Not a bad strategy.
Yeah, not bad.
Well, we'll talk about that in the show for sure.
Let's start, though, with what is going on with gold.
And there is a tweet by James Lavish, awesome bitcoiner, very, very well informed on the macro landscape here.
So I'll just share my screen here and maybe pop us up on the side here.
Good hockey player too.
Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly.
So tweet from James Lavish just today, good morning, gold and silver.
It's your turn to be the source for.
for cash, sincerely, Bitcoin.
And he followed it up with a chart.
And so this shows the Bitcoin chart versus gold
over what the past couple of months here.
And so you can see Bitcoin, you know,
gradually in a volatile fashion working its way upwards.
And gold not looking so hot,
kind of getting crushed a little bit here.
So what is going on here?
And just to note on the day earlier today, gold had dropped 7%.
And Bitcoin was actually down significantly less around three, I think, at the time when we're putting all this together.
Which is very interesting because the size of the asset classes.
So like the amount of money that needs to pile out of gold versus Bitcoin for the,
you know, a 7% drop is, is quite a bit more. So there's a really good article here from Zero Hedge that I'm
just going to kind of go through. It's not super long, but they call it from darling to disaster.
Gold's crowded trade starts to unwind. So they say gold has been the consensus trade backed by
strong narratives and persistent flows. But when everyone is talking about the same thing,
it often stops working, that's exactly what we're seeing now. The golden puke,
Gold is now breaking below the trend that has held since August.
The 50 day has already given way.
The price is currently testing the 100-day moving average,
and the next key level sits at the 200-day,
which would be just over, well, in and around $4,100,000,000, specifically.
Darling Long Gold is suddenly hitting the most oversold levels since November 2024.
However, oversold doesn't mean done.
We've seen this in Bitcoin before as well.
Well, contrary to popular belief, gold currently isn't that, while I would push back on this,
but they say it's currently not the reliable geopolitical hedge, many assume it to be.
The latest crisis has made that clear with gold and the VIX moving almost perfectly in inverse tandem.
Few expected GDX to sell off this hard, but here we are the last time GDX traded at these levels.
Gold was around 4,150.
Meanwhile, the RSI, this is a measurement of.
of being sold or overbought or oversold is at 27.
So this is a deep oversold territory.
Never forget that markets tend to surprise on both magnitude and duration moves can extend
far beyond expectations and conditions can stay oversold or overbought for longer than most anticipate.
And again, gold has effectively turned into just another risk-on, risk-off asset.
Despite all the narrative around central bank buying and structural demand, the crowd is getting forced.
out. Now, I would push back a little bit on not being like a flight to safety. I think just,
and we've discussed this last night on on Bitcast as well. But really, in these situations,
you, people just need cash and they sell whatever's liquid. And so that could be Bitcoin. And it
kind of has been Bitcoin for a little while now. But it seems to be switching teams over to gold because so many people
had piled in there. And before we kind of jump into, you know, discussion here, just to compare.
So here's Bitcoin on the day. It's down less than a percent and contrast that with gold. Gold is
down about 5 percent. Okay. So again, the amount of capital that has to move, the move in the
market cap that has to move out of gold to accomplish a 5 percent drawdown.
versus Bitcoin at a significantly lower market cap only being down a fraction of a percent
is very, very interesting.
And just to kind of devil's advocate what Zero Hedge was saying from yet another Zero Hedge
article, China did indeed buy gold for the 16th straight month.
And they are becoming, I think they're the third largest holder of gold on Earth now.
next to, I think, Germany and what was the other one?
I'm not finding it right now.
There's somewhere here, though.
Germany was one of them, though.
Anyways, I think they're in place number three.
Either way, Nathan, what are you making of this?
Are we going from retail piling into gold to massive sell-offs and Bitcoin no longer
taking it on the chin here?
Well, it's funny because there's a few things in gold bugs.
Welcome. Welcome back into the fold.
We're all friends again now.
We're all in the sound money camp.
But to the initial points from the article, like when you're talking about, like, the debasement trade had a name that was in the mainstream media.
That's the top signal.
That's always going to be a bit of a worry.
I remember when we were seeing like gold bars being sold out at Costco.
That's a bit of a worry.
Now is like the investment thesis behind gold shattered?
No, not really.
It's just cooling off here.
And the unfortunate thing, too, about like, when you're looking at like RSI and the relative strength index is I know that like when the worst, I'm not saying this is going to happen.
But when the worst moments happen, it's not when it's like oversold.
it's when it further tanks, right?
So normally, like,
oversaw, you're looking at 30
and kind of 70 on the overbought at the top,
but the big moves happen
when you're already in that position.
So hopefully gold gets a bit of a reprieve here
and bounces back up,
but if it was going to nuke down further,
this is also where that might actually occur,
that might actually happen.
So, you know, is the dollar going to be,
are going to start to stop debasing it?
We're going to have responsible fiscal spending.
I'm sure we'll talk more about that later
because there's more news on that front,
but no, absolutely not.
It just got way out over at skis.
When you see retail piling into precious metals
who don't even understand Austrian economics
or really the thesis behind it,
they couldn't tell you really the problem with fiat is.
They're just seeing the FOMO jumping in.
Guys, it was just over-bought, right?
It was just, it was too much euphoria at that point in time.
To your earlier point,
I think the gold market cap is somewhere around like $32 trillion.
It's like a 5% move is absolutely massive
in terms of market cap in that scale.
I think we'll probably chill for a little bit and come back up.
And I saw Simon Dixon point this out.
And I agree the sort of sentiment that for me,
I never view gold as kind of,
And it's not an inflation hedge per se, which is why I did like nothing for a decade.
It's, it's chaos insurance, right?
It's another chaos insurance hedge.
And I would interpret that if we're seeing a sell-off in gold, that tells me that
political instability is probably going to come down, that at least the market is signaling
that they think that there may be a resolution to what's going on in Iran, not a further
escalation, right?
That we're going to see less chaos, less geopolitical turmoil, less uncertainty, and people are going to
rotate into like the higher beta stuff, go back into exile.
things of that nature.
I don't think there's even necessarily a big scramble for cash right now.
I think it's rotation out into other assets.
So, you know, it's nice that the gold bugs won't be taking victory laps on the Bitcoiners
at this point in time.
And the unfortunate thing is that let's say we do get things, unfortunate for gold,
not for Bitcoin.
Let's say that things do settle down.
Markets get a little more stability.
We see the Middle East calm down.
You're going to see the rotation out of like treasuries and gold into equities and
probably back into Bitcoin because it's still viewed as the risk on asset because everybody else
is retarded and doesn't get that this is the least risky thing in existence.
And so I think this is potentially actually a positive move forward.
Maybe next week Walker's retard of the week will be retail.
That might be the thing.
But again, to your point, you were talking about gold bugs dunking on Bitcoiners.
That's how you kind of know when there's the excessive.
amount of gloating. I mean, I don't know if anybody he currently on the show right now watching is
in the live chat. But remember we had just, I think there was like three or four of them
regularly hitting up the live chat just saying, oh, Bitcoin is trash, gold all the way, like
precious metals all the way. Well, that's how you kind of know. Also, the pictures of people
lining the streets down the street in Australia and places like that that we're trying to buy up
physical gold.
Yeah.
I mean,
the writing is kind of on the wall
when you're starting to see that.
100%.
And you know what?
I love to see it.
One,
you're right,
because the euphoria on silver got insane as well too.
But I love it because those people are going to have such a hard time.
If you're taking time out of your busy schedule,
if you're an important day to come over here and tell Bitcoiners that they're
stupid and they should buy gold,
well,
then you're going to remember that moment and you're going to have to think about that
when Bitcoin absolutely melts your face off in the coming months,
years, whatever it might be.
And those, man,
those guys are really crumagony.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, I've saved a tweet from time to time.
A few years later, I won't put myself beyond that.
But hey, it's all in good fun.
But this is not the only thing kind of on the radar for shit going sideways and the reactions to it from assinine central banks.
Because remember, the reason that people need and go to things like gold and Bitcoin is,
because of the insanity of an insidiousness of central banks.
While this just out of the Bank of England set to hike interest rates twice as the Iran crisis decimates Andrew Bailey's 2% inflation target hopes, which, okay, Nathan, I know, I'm not even going to say anything yet because I know, I know specifically that you are ready to
on this. So I'm just going to, I'm going to take this off the screen right now. What do you think about the
Central Bank of England looking at raising interest race twice in response to the Iran war? And why is it stupid?
Well, there's your retard of the week. It's absolutely retarded that they're making this sort of move.
Again, I don't want central bank. So I know central bank. Even if they just follow the two-year treasury,
I figure there'd be a better way to go. But for the love of God, let me just climb up in the soapbox for a second here.
we don't use words properly, it distorts the message, and it gets so fucking confusing.
That's not inflation. That's prices going up. That is not inflation. It is a different thing.
Prices going up is usually response to currency inflation because we're creating more units,
chasing less goods and services. And price going up is a response, but the two are not synonymous.
They're not the same. And it's a sciop that they get away with doing that shit all the time.
It is everywhere and always, always a monetary thing. And so if you had, say, the prices of oil
going up because there's a huge demand, tons of economic activity going,
on in the space and they were just gobbling up all the energy, bidding up the price of it because
they needed more and more and more. That might actually be an inflationary environment because
then the commercial banking system are going to be giving out tons of loans and they're going
issuing more dollars in response to all the economic activity. Because don't forget the commercial
banks, the ones that print a shit ton of money. It's coming from them. It's not coming from the central
bank. So in that sort of situation, this kind of response would make sense. But this isn't an
inflationary situation. What's actually going on here is you have an artificial supply
constraint. It's a supply shortage because
for some reason we decided to go and bomb shit in the Middle East
and then they're bomb us back and shit shut down and shit can't get
through and they're not producing it and we just blew it. A ran
just blew up some shit in Qatar for like the
it was like they brew up I think like 20 or 18%
of the largest LNG facility
in the refinery in the world. I'm pretty sure
Saudi got hit. There was a giant gas field
in the RAND that got hit. So we're just destroying
our own shit. We're not
actually making more currency units. So what are they
going to do? They're going to see prices go up and because
they're retarded. They're going to interpret that as like
oh, there's like an inflation. We've got to raise interest rates.
The businesses that rely on that energy are now going to have a harder time producing things and actually doing economic activity because there's a supply constraint and prices have gone up.
So they're not going to be taking it loans.
So you're going to have even less economic activity once you start layering on raising interest rates on top of it.
This ends with deflation.
This ends really fucking badly for the economy because they're responding to the wrong fucking thing because they're Keynesian, I don't know, modern monetary dipshits.
Did I cover it all?
I think I get the basis.
The shorter answer is, you're dumb.
You're always dumb.
You always make the wrong choice.
Keynesians did this because they're the ones that fucked with the definition of inflation.
Even now, just as an example, even now, a quick Google of inflation definition,
inflation is the rate at which general level of prices for goods and services rises over time
reducing the purchasing power of money.
The ordering in which they even describe it, it's like price.
prices go up and it ruins the money.
No, you ruin the money and then prices go up.
So like Keynesians and the economic education that most people are getting now,
think it's the inverse.
It's, oh, it's the jerks that are creating the goods that are making our money worth less.
No, it's the people that create the money that are making it worth less
and forcing people that are making goods and services to raise prices
because the money isn't worth fucking toilet paper.
I got just throw it just quickly.
You pointed out something with this order of operations.
It's like an additional layer on the sciat
because if you want to get people to not actually get outraged
by the fact that they are being debased by these goddamn lizard monsters,
the first thing you have to do is convince them that this is just like a thing.
It's like the wind in nature.
Prices just go up and therefore, you know, we have to play with the currency
because that's inflation.
Not you fucked with the money, which is why the prices went up.
They got the order backwards,
which is part of the SIOP of just normalizing this bullshit
across the West, across the globe.
Yeah, yeah.
And again, like the thinking here, really, in reality, what's happening is when the central
bank creates more money, it creates inflation.
And then the central bank's answer to that when it gets out of hand is to raise interest
rates, the cost of borrowing all of that.
So it kind of like ruins the economy.
So people are producing less shit and people go out of business so that shit becomes
expensive less fast.
And what they're doing here is it's something that, funny enough, that they've not directly
caused themselves as central banks, other than funding never-ending wars, that's a whole other
story.
But it's, again, as you said, it's a supply constraint from extraneous factors, and they're
treating it as if it's coming from them printing money instead.
And it's just like, it's like people are struggling.
already and they're like
but prices will go up
so what do we do
and they only have two buttons
so it's like
none of those buttons fix
the thing so it is what it is
yeah you got to call Jeff Booth on that one
get him on the phone yeah
yeah good Lord
now outside of this
we've been touching on it and I'm not going to spend
too much time here but we've been
talking about the private credit
markets a lot in the shows lately
and things collapsing, going sideways.
Well, never let a good crisis go to waste.
With echoes of the big short,
we can see now that Goldman Sachs and J.B. Morkin are offering hedge fund clients
ways to short the $1.8 trillion private credit market.
So basically, it would seem that retail and or rather, you know,
hedge fund clients really, really want to bet on,
things going sideways as they have been. And lo and behold, Goldman and JP are ready to offer
that product. I'm curious how much of this stuff they hold themselves and how much they created
before offering this to, it seems like, exclusively hedge fund clients and not retail. But
Nathan, do you have some thoughts here? One, we're having a bit of a private credit issue. And so
raising the interest rates, probably going to throw some more fuel on that fire. So that'll be
fun. Again, all this shit just, they're setting up to just break it even further. It's already
broken, but they're just setting up for at an event. Two, you know they already filled their bags
because if they created up here, you know, we know a little bit about business. We hang out
do these things. If you create a product, there's usually one of two things. You think it's a really
interesting idea that people might like it. Or you got people banging on your door saying, I want
this shit. And so if they're offering this product to hedge funds, I feel like, hmm, they probably
had a couple hedge funds coming to them and being like, hey, I'd like to short the shit.
out of the private credit market.
At which point they have, again, they get to move first.
I went, hmm, all these people want to short it.
That might be a bit of a signal there.
Let me fill my bags first and then I'll offer you some as well.
This is exactly, again, if you haven't seen the big short, go watch it.
Because Michael Burry was betting against the U.S. housing market.
He was shorting it.
And when he first went in to ask them to build a product for him because it didn't exist,
they laughed at him, but they were like, yeah, we can absolutely.
do that. We'll gladly take your, you know, billions of dollars or whatever. And, uh,
and then after the fact, he couldn't figure out why the ratings agencies, why nothing was, was going
his way. He should be rolling in the money at this point. He should be, you know, the shit should
be hitting the fan. They were propping it up so that they could fill their bags full of these
shorts first. And then they let shit hit the fan. Then.
they were like, okay, it's now, now that we're hedged, let's let reality sit in and screw retail.
And so, is this the same story?
Just rhyming?
I think so.
Yeah, we're setting up for something here.
We'll see what ends up happening.
You know, these little moments do pop up from time to time and not every one of them is a goddamn disaster.
But it is interesting in this sort of sense that the private credit market, it seems like you've got less leverage at play than in 2008.
but there's not really an asset on the other side of the table,
meaning that when your house crashed,
you know,
it could go half off,
right?
But you still had a house,
you still had 50% of the value to recovery.
Private credit can go to a big fat zero.
And so it's very well this contagion could spill over
and have a lot of issues with the banks should it get worse.
Exactly.
Now,
in more exorbitant spending and craziness,
we have Pete Hegson.
Seth from the Department of War.
He's, don't worry, he's not asking for too much, just $200 billion for the war.
Let's take a listen to what he had to say.
$200 billion.
I think that number could move, obviously.
It takes money to kill bad guys.
So we're going back to Congress and folks there to ensure that we're properly funded for what's been done, for what we may have to do in the future,
ensure that our ammunition is, everything's refilled and not just refilled, but above and beyond.
President Trump, as he said, rebuilt the military in his first term, didn't think he'd use it as dynamically in his second, but he had.
So, thank goodness he did that. And an investment like this is meant to say, hey, we'll replace anything that was spent.
And now that we're reviving our defense industrial base and rebuilding the arsenal and freedom and cutting deals like our great deputy secretaries here is doing, long lead times on exquisite munitions, we're going to be refilled faster than anyone imagined.
And I think, you know, we're also still dealing with the environment that Joe Biden created, which was, which was depleting those stockholes and not sending them.
to our own military, but to Ukraine, which is when you, every time we reach back and look at any
sort of a challenge we have, it goes back to, well, send it to Ukraine. Ultimately, we think this
should be these, these munitions are better spent in our own interests at this point. And this kind of
funding bill is going to ensure that we're properly funded going. Two things can be true. Both of those
things can be bad ideas. Yep. Oh, yeah. Right. Like, you know, I wasn't a big fan of, uh,
constantly sending money over to Ukraine.
Also not a big fan of $200 billion to bomb Iran for some reason.
Oh, wait, never mind.
They were days away from nuclear weapons.
Did you hear that, Nathan?
Days, days away.
You know, there's something there that I really want to pull apart and just to just highlight
for one second.
He said, we need money to kill or it takes money to kill bad guys, right?
And I just wanted to stop and think about that because that gives away the entire game
of how this stupid military industrial complex works,
along with the finances behind it.
So if you can convince the population
that someone is bad guys,
you just got a blank check for money.
That's the whole thing.
So just keep that in mind.
Whenever you see anything on the mainstream media,
the stories that you're being fed,
the narrator is being shown in front of you.
One, why are they being shown in front of you?
Why is it in your feed?
Why are you paying attention to it?
When you think that somebody is a bad guy,
really stop and evaluate the case,
because it may not be so, right?
because this is a whole game.
They convince you that these are bad guys.
We destroy all the old munitions.
We get to ask for a ton of new money to make new shit.
It's a literally broken window fallacy.
Like we're going to blow shit up.
We're convincing that they're bad so we can blow shit up and break shit
so that we can be paid to them, rebuild it,
and make new shit and make new weapons on your fucking tax dollars
and your inflation that eats out your purchasing power.
It's the whole game, right?
Just don't be tricked anymore.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's pretty wild.
And I will say it is refreshing.
that not everybody is just going to partisan toe the line this time, it seems.
There are those that are just no matter what.
He's my guy on my side of the aisle, so I will agree with everything.
But you do see those that were like, I was promised the president of peace.
I was promised this, that, and the other thing.
And I'm not getting that.
And I'm upset.
Rightfully so.
So it's nice when people can't.
Joe Kent, the director of, what was it, counterterrorism.
I'm blinking on the title right now, but he resigned.
He resigned today because I'm not into doing Iran.
And he had some interesting words of who he was blaming.
Indeed.
I noticed that for sure.
Well, we're going to jump to break here, but on the other side of it,
we have seen some very interesting stuff when it comes to internet censorship,
internet shutdowns, and internet beyond censorship,
But we saw some door knocking from Canadian police for social media posts.
Please, I mean, it was inevitable, but like, how soon are we going to become the UK?
Either way, we're going to touch on all of that and more when we get back on the other side of the break.
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All right, back in and let's talk about more internet censorship and draconian panopticon type
stuff coming our way.
Fun?
Yeah, I know, fun, super fun.
I mean, it is important to see what happens in different parts of the globe and at home
so that you can arm yourself with the tools to properly navigate it.
And all of these freedom-related technologies are tangential to Bitcoin.
Bitcoin keeps your money free.
And some of these other tools can keep your speech free and private as well.
So let's chat Russia a little bit.
What is going on there?
So this article here highlights mobile internet blackouts sweep Moscow, leaving residents feeling powerless.
So what is this?
Moscow is in the throes of a major mobile internet blackout.
As the Russian government tightens restrictions, it has touted as necessary to ensure the security of its citizens.
The Russian capital has been more or less spared from a wave of systemic mobile internet outages that have hit the country since May, which authorities have said are necessary to counter the threat of Ukrainian drones.
But since the first week of March, Muscovites, is I would call them?
I guess so. That's the first time I've ever heard that before.
Yeah, damn. Okay. All right, Muscovites have also found themselves without connectivity on their phones. The restrictions have disrupted the daily lives of millions of residents and hit businesses that rely on mobile internet, leading Muscovites to revert to cash. Interesting. E-cash could be a good one in there.
It could be helpful. Yeah. And some are questioning whether the government is doing it deliberately. Maybe that could be a thing, but let's continue. No one is happy about this. No one understands why.
it's happening or rather everyone seems to understand why.
Lira, a Moscow resident who works in the arts industry, told NBC News in a text message Monday.
We feel powerless and unable to influence it.
We expect a complete blackout within six months.
NBC News agreed not to use the last names of those interviews.
They're probably already in a gulag somewhere because they were wary of speaking to foreign media about sensitive security topics
and did not want their personal details shared, during possible,
very likely repercussions, I'd say.
The outages come on the backdrop of increasing restrictions on what Russians can and cannot do online
in what has been a widening crackdown on free speech since President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion over Ukraine in February 22.
Most recently, the telegram messaging app has been slowed down and a ban has been mooted by authorities in the country
where it is widely used for both news and everyday information.
This is the funny part here.
the Kremlin has tried to steer people to a state-backed alternative known as Max,
which was created by the state-controlled company VK, and some fear it could be used for surveillance.
You don't say either way.
Like this seems very obviously, you know, implemented by this guy here.
And so what do people do people do in this situation?
First off, before we go into solutions here, Nathan, do you have any initial thoughts on this?
One of my initial thoughts is, do you remember back of the day?
I don't know about you, but I didn't, so I got a phone for the first time when I was 16.
I started driving.
It was one of those like really shitty Nokia's.
They were great, right?
There was dumb phone.
You could pay a buck for a ringtone.
But, you know, it's not a bad idea.
It's not a bad idea to just be prepared in the sense that like if you had no cellular data,
cellular data. You had no phone. What resources could you do? Who could you contact? How would
you contact them? How far away are they? And just start to mull over these ideas. I'm not saying it's
going to happen, but you want to, you don't have been in a position where you're so absolutely
dependent that you couldn't possibly turn to a neighbor or somebody. Yeah, 100%. And
there's a couple of things that came to mind when I was reading this. So of course, there's,
there's bit chat. And bit chat, if I can, I'm going to have to just do.
the fancy how will we do this? There we go. I'll make it better. There we go. Bit
chat. So BitChat, this is, it requires no internet connectivity whatsoever as long as you have it.
So it's a good thing. It's like it's just like something you want in your tool belt in case.
It's like having a fire extinguisher around. You hope you don't need it. But if you do, you're glad you have it.
So I'd recommend everybody go download BitChat right now. Head over to bitchat.org.com. There's link.
Thanks for being able to get it in the App Store.
It's on iOS and it's on Android.
But either way, you can also download the APK file as well for Android.
But it basically allows you to use a mesh network,
which is creating effectively your own internet through Bluetooth with nearby people.
So in instances where there's social unrest, there are protests, things like that,
people can turn this on and instantly be connected with everybody in their range.
And then once you're connected to one person, it extends your range to beyond them.
I think it's 100 meters or something like that.
I've seen both 100 feet and 100 meters.
100 meters seems implausible to me for Bluetooth, but I could be wrong, but 100 feet kind of makes sense.
So about 100 feet.
But it operates very much like the Bitcoin network.
It's just a series of nodes.
And it's almost like sending a lightning payment.
You will route through the network of people that all have the blue.
Bluetooth turned on and connected to get the message to the intended recipient that you want.
Super, super powerful because it means that they knock out the telecommunications.
You're fine.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
The cool thing about this is Jack Dorsey vibe-coded it in an afternoon.
And then that was just for iPhone.
And then Calais, the gentleman who also created Cashew, e-cash for Bitcoin, he vibe-coded it over to an Android port.
Did all the work to get it done.
But hats off to both of them.
Because this is not only been used for political tension and protests and things like that.
And funny enough, they can actually tell when there's about to be civil unrest because BitChat downloads in those regions pop off right before it happens, which is crazy.
But also when there's natural disasters.
So we know Dread, awesome Bitcoinser, but he's down in Jamaica.
And I had made a tutorial on how to use BitChat.
And he's messaging me before being like, yo, your timing was perfect because there's a hurricane about to roll through.
And everybody's like back and forth on telegram trying to figure out BitChat and they're sharing the tutorial, which is awesome.
So really, really cool to see you this.
And outside of that, just in the realm of mesh networks as a whole, something, there's a project called meshtastic.
So off-grid communication for everyone.
an open source, off-grid, decentralized mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices,
no cell towers, no internet, just peer-to-beer connectivity.
This is something I've not had the pleasure of playing with yet, but there's funky, cool
little devices that you can set up.
You can create your own mesh network locally in your own region.
You can bring these devices with you.
Yeah, it's super, super cool.
Nathan, you haven't played around with anything like this yet, have you?
No, I haven't. I haven't, but I was thinking about a few things as we're going through. It'd be really nice.
Even something like BitChat, if you'd almost like have, if one of the nodes has access to the internet,
if you could tie into like lightning infrastructure or tie into the Bitcoin network, if you had the ability
then to relay it across the rest of the mesh network. Because they wouldn't even have to use e-cash then.
You could do Bitcoin as long as one person had a connection. That might be like a really cool,
really cool build out at some point in time. Haven't played with mesh-tastic. I got to say,
there's no, I don't know why, but for whatever reason, I just think of an attractive woman in
fishnet stockings by the name Mesh.
So I'm like, all right, cool.
It sounds fun.
I feel like that would be a good marketing.
Right.
And so I feel like it's a missed opportunity.
But yeah, I mean, totally agree.
And that's true.
Again, if you have one person with one connection,
then you can kind of funnel through that individual to get things on the fly.
But again, in the absence of that,
cashew is something great.
Cashew.
dot me would be a good one here.
And so this you can basically set up,
and I probably already use this on this,
oh, no, brand new,
but it's pretty simple.
You just go through and you can create a new wallet.
It gives you a seed phrase.
I'm just going to say, I've written it down.
And then it gives you different mints that you can add.
Again, the tradeoff here is that it is, of course, custodial,
but also incredibly private, and it can then be used offline.
So there we go.
I already have a wallet.
I can hit receive.
I can receive either eCash or Lightning.
E-cash transactions can be done entirely offline.
So pretty cool.
Worth checking out.
That was about 42 seconds, by the way.
42 seconds to set that thing up on the fly.
So really powerful in times of maybe crackdown or infrastructure falling apart.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
And I see somebody in the chat said 100 feet is nothing.
Yeah, it's a very small space.
But the point isn't you need to be 100 feet from everyone.
You need to be 100 feet from one person.
And then that person needs to be 100 feet from any other person.
And so as soon as you get like a six degrees of Kevin Bacon going and picture this in an area where there's mass protests going on and they shut off the internet.
And so you can no longer coordinate.
Now you can.
Trucks in front of Ottawa in front of the parliament building.
You're all going to be within 100 feet of each other.
Yeah, exactly.
So again, and with something like mesh-tastic, that pushes that way further.
You can create mesh networks that go way further with, you know, a little bit more specialized equipment rather than just Bluetooth on a phone.
So let's chat Canada because this shit was wild.
I don't know if this is expletive-laden or not, but we're just play a little bit of it.
It's not too bad.
So you've made some online posts.
So the Prime Minister of Canada.
Do you anything say about that?
Can you be more specific?
What post?
What I specifically said?
Do you have a screenshot?
Yeah, you specifically said, and you made it online.
Well, because, I mean, he's a Zionist scumbag, and he's not my Prime Minister, so.
Okay.
Well, there goes the monetization.
But nonetheless, the long and the short of it is, this lady voiced her
displeasure with Mark Carney, the Prime Minister of Canada online, and was visited by police at her home.
Now, I've seen some commentary, and I haven't seen the post myself, and I believe she removed it,
actually. But I do believe it also said, I'm coming for you, or you're going to get what's
coming or something like that. So I don't, I'm not trying to play devil's advocate for these police.
I'm just trying to say, like, can that be construed as a threat?
I don't know, but I still, like, I see this and I'm like, we are this close to what's, what's been happening in the UK.
Like, this is just the first inklings of it from like, you know, somebody being pissed off and just like some mundane, like, housewife at home being like, fuck this guy.
very quickly.
And with the passage of all of these online kind of like hate speech laws in Canada,
we are so close to be.
I mean, we're basically already there.
It's just we haven't yet seen the influx of videos.
But it's coming.
Nathan, what do you think?
It's anarcho tyranny, right?
Because think of it, like, how fast do they respond to a post?
Like, that's really a priority.
I'm sure, especially in like the GTA area, you probably have some maybe other public incidents
maybe violence against good citizens, maybe some theft or property damage.
But no, no, no, no, no.
You said mean things about the prime minister.
You can't talk bad about the regime.
We're showing up right then and there.
It's so goddamn ridiculous that they will absolutely go out of their way to use the law against you.
But to protect you, to protect your property?
Absolutely not.
You call the police an emergency.
They might be there the next day.
Yeah.
If you notice things, they notice you.
Yep.
And the police specifically don't notice other things.
So it was a lot of noticing and not noticing going around.
It's pretty wild.
So, I mean, either way, I think it's time that we also address in this type of situation.
What is effective?
What can you do to not have this dude at your door?
We don't have a Second Amendment been.
Right.
That's true.
That's true.
So, yeah, unfortunately, if you try to defend yourself in your home, you will go to jail
for not readily handing over your car keys to the intruder.
But that said, what about your online privacy being able to avoid censorship but also
maintain privacy?
So anonymous accounts, always effective.
You know, you got to be, if you believe that this is coming for you, then
and you're going to be saying spicy things,
it might be time to go in on
and create an account for that specific purpose.
Also, we've seen stories about them
trying to find anonymous accounts.
What country was that out of?
I'm trying to remember that was recently.
We talked about this.
Yeah.
My instinct actually was that it was Canada,
but I don't think so.
Yeah, it might have been either Australia or the UK.
I think it was the UK, actually,
Yeah. And I mean, it's all wrapped in like keeping our children safe and the age verification, that kind of stuff too. But, you know, get yourself a VPN. MOLVAD is great and you can get it privately because you can pay in lightning. You can pay with Bitcoin. So and it's there's no account number. There's no like email or anything like that. It's literally just a number. You have an account number and then you just plug that number into whatever your device you're using.
and Mulved will work.
So I've been pretty happy with that.
Works great.
In terms of preventing censorship,
again, how many times we're going to say it, Noster, you can post,
they cannot take it down.
I mean, in this instance, like,
you've got to balance,
you've got a tight wire to walk because privacy,
important, censorship resistant, important.
But when you've got a police officer at your,
door and they have linked you to a nostril post that you cannot take down, that's kind of forever.
So there's like you've got to be intelligent about how you use censorship resistant social media as well.
So I don't know. Anything to add to that either?
Yeah, just start off every post with the following is satire and hopefully that'll cover your ass.
That's fair. That should just be default on everything. Just have like a little watermark underneath.
And one last thing I wanted to touch on here.
When it's not the government cracking down or censoring your speech or tracking you,
it might just be the big tech Panopticon.
And there's been a number of people that this has happened to over the past number of years.
People playing Pokemon Go.
Crazy.
So 143 people, 43 million people thought they were.
catching Pokemon, they were actually building one of the largest real-world visual data sets
in AI history.
Niantic just disclosed that photos and AR scans collected through Pokemon Go have produced a
dataset of over 30 billion real-world images.
The company is now using that data to power visual navigation AI for delivery robots.
Players didn't just walk around with their phones.
They scan landmarks, storefronts, parks, and sidewalks from every angle at, and, you know,
every time of the day in lighting and weather conditions that stage photography would never capture.
They documented the physical world at a scale. No mapping company with a fleet of vehicles
could ever have replicated in the same timeline or budget. Niantic collected this systematically
data point by data point across eight years, while users thought the only thing at stake
was catching a rare charzart. The most valuable AI training datasets in the world aren't being
assembled in data centers, they're being built by people who have no idea they're building
them. Once again, I mean, question what you're downloading. I mean, it's just, what a mass,
man. I tried it out back in the day. I absolutely did walk around. I was like, man, feel like a useful
idiot. It's like, wow, all it took was like a little nostalgia baiting and they got the globe to do
their work for them at no cost.
Yeah. It's crazy.
It is absolutely crazy.
I mean, smart,
kind of smart,
not a bad idea, make a fun little game
and have it go viral. I mean,
they had to have it go viral so they needed
the rights to Pokemon, but
kind of evil genius.
Yeah, very, very evil
corp vibes. I get
from that, but
yeah, either way.
So,
once again,
Do we have them ready?
We do. I got the thumbs up signal.
All right. Yeah. Okay.
So back by popular demand, everybody's favorite Fiat correspondent is coming back to the show to tell us once again what we've gotten so wrong over the past week.
Walter.
Oh, hello, Benjamin, Nathaniel.
You know, you mentioned on the previous episode that some of your audience think that you two bit Connors only bring doom and gloom.
Well, I thought I would graciously represent the dollar by offering your viewers some early spring
cheer. And what could be more cheerful than a clown? And in that cheerful spirit, allow me to
share some uplifting feel-good stories in this week's pecking order. Pick number five.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell recently reported there has been net zero job creation
over the past six months, which is actually a good thing because a higher jobs report
traditionally leads to interest rate hikes, whereas a lower jobs report can lead to lower interest
rates, thus creating more jobs. Pick number four, private credit lenders are defaulting, which is good,
because the harm to investors will incentivize brave politicians to fold these predatory Wild West
lenders into a traditional banking system and protect investors with safe patriotic investments like bonds.
Peck number three, the much-criticized war has seen greedy oil companies more than double their prices,
thus paving the way for non-greedy green energy.
Nature is healing, and that healing is happening fastest in Iran.
Peck number two, our friends in Canada recently joined our friends in Europe and Australia
by passing legislation to moderate hateful speech on the internet.
And while we Westerners get to enjoy a safe internet space,
the good news is that this can be the beginning of a movement to protect children around the
developing world from the most violent threat they face words.
And peck number one, in a win for a dollar acceptance over Bitcoin, the U.S. government debt of $39 trillion
dollars now counts for one-third of the global money supply. Next stop, half.
You really caught me off guard there. Have you been tanning?
I've been bringing good cheer. That's all. Just get cheer.
Walter, I've got one question for you. I guess there's just so much there, but I'll just
just stick with the last point.
$39 trillion in debt.
Who is ever going to repay that?
Well, that's the neat part.
You don't.
Unlike your Ponzi scheme, Bitcoin,
we can simply issue more debt to pay back the existing debt.
As always, thank you, Walter, for informing us on our mistakes.
We look forward to seeing you next week.
And guys, if you're enjoying the show, drop a like.
We'll be back after the break.
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All right, we're back. I don't, I don't even know. That really threw me off, man.
Well, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's always wonderful having Walter on the program. Love having Walter on the program because we actually have no idea what's coming when we go into it. And I did not fucking see that. Oh, man. Yeah. Great points though. Great points that he made.
Amazing. Well, uh, we want to important to get both sides of the argument. We got to talk to Fiat people every now and then.
Yeah, we, we can get in our Bitcoin bubble. We need to know what the.
fiaters are thinking and that Walter definitely embodies the the the the fiat mentality that is
absolutely certain so for sure nonetheless um we're gonna pivot here a little bit uh Nathan did you
we were we were chatting a little bit about this but uh pretty wild um the hospice fraud
going on in LA this is this is crazy to me uh and and this brought to us by our good friend
Nick Shirley, same dude who figured out all of the daycare fraud happening in Minnesota.
Everything's a Somali daycare, it seems, these days.
Yeah, very lucrative lines of work, and it would seem hospice care is known different.
An investigation by CBS, well, I mean, yeah.
They discovered massive Medicare fraud, more than 700 out of 1,800 licensed hospice providers in
LA County. The scam utilizes stolen Medicare numbers to fraudulently enroll healthy seniors in hospice
with fake terminal diagnoses billing Medicare an average of 29 grand per patient without delivering
care to the tune of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. 31% of hospice and home health
companies in the U.S. are registered in L.A. County. But when investigators visit,
the addresses listed.
They found no clinics, patients, or health care workers,
and instead they found multiple red flags,
including multiple hospices in one building,
high rates of terminally ill patients later discharged alive,
excessive billing, and staff shared across multiple companies.
This is absolutely insane yet again.
And think of, okay, so I watched a little bit of the Nick Shirley thing,
where he went to this
like old
like dumpy motel
and in this motel
every single room
was a hospice company
or like every room
of this entire motel
was with like
a name a placard on the door
of like whatever company
all of them all in one
one motel
and then parked in the middle
of the motel
were just expensive
luxury vehicles,
BMWs and Mercedes
and all these different things,
he starts knocking on the doors
being like,
oh, I'm looking for hospice care.
And as they realized
who he was and what he was doing there,
you see all these guys
like ripping out to their cars
and jumping in these beamers
and just like speeding out of the park.
It was insane.
But like if this is happening
and these are just,
I feel like they're just starting to come to light
because when you give free money away,
first of all, it's a bad practice.
Like there should be some, but like there's, it seems like there's no checks and balances.
And I feel like we barely even scratch the surface of the fraud that is made possible in large part because of the Fiat ecosystem.
Like you can just paper this over, no problem.
You can always, there's no end to how much debt you can, and you see it in the national debt.
But there's no backstop.
there's no point where the fraud can be so big that they can't paper it over.
And this is the problem with the Fiat system.
So, Nathan, what are you thinking here?
Well, it's a very, very good points.
I think I can fix the whole thing.
The issue that we have here is one of the worst possible places on my four by four quadrant,
or two by two quadrant is that you have your money that you're spending on yourself,
someone else's money that you're spending on yourself,
your money that you're spending on someone else,
and not your money and not being spent on you.
And that's what's going in this little bubble right there.
and you're going to see the worst cases of fraud in misuse and misallocation in that area.
But don't worry, I can fix, I can fix the fraud, I can fix the relationship between the sexes,
you know, we can get that back together.
I can fix the political divide, and I can even fix the immigration problem.
I can get all of it, all of it cleared out in one fell swoop.
And here we go, ready?
No fucking welfare state.
Don't get free shit away.
Then people won't come for free shit.
People won't fight over free shit.
People won't steal the free shit.
None of it.
Get rid of all of it.
and so many, so many, so money, so money, what a slip of the tongue there, so many of society's
issues go by the wayside.
It's just gone.
So fuck all this crap.
Yeah.
And before, before anybody gives me shit, it's like, it's Medicaid or Medicare or whatever the
fuck, right?
As someone who comes from a socialist hellhole with free health care, it's fucking garbage
anyways.
I wish there was no safety net.
Absolutely not.
I don't want any of their infrastructure.
I don't want their goddamn doctors.
They're awful.
I don't know the fuck they're talking about most of the, most of the, most.
of the time. I will happily pay for every little bit of it because then I'd actually be able to
get it and the quality would actually be decent. Yeah. I honestly, I echo it and I think that people
people think, okay, one, when you force people to pay for these things, it's not altruism. It is
theft. Yes. Right. And they also think that in the absence of the theft to hold these things up,
that there wouldn't ever be any sort of community initiative where people voluntarily partake
in taking care of the most down and out segments of society when a crisis strikes.
And this is the problem with becoming dependent on the state is you stop building social bonds
with your neighbors and your family.
This is why people don't have big families anymore.
People just move away from their relatives.
people just live out there as single individuals in the middle of nowhere.
Well, I mean, the state will take care of me.
I've got my Medicaid.
I've got whatever.
When in reality, like people, there was something too when people relied on their neighbors
and they needed to know other people because when they actually needed something,
and they became destitute or something like that, they had somebody to,
lean on and and they also would reciprocate right oh you help me during my hard time then i'm
going to help you or you you would reciprocate for me so i'm going to make sure i look out for you
so that if i or the rave us end up in dire straits we can help each other we've we've
completely lost that and we've relied on the state and the state has squandered that and allowed
for all of this type of fraud and it just keeps on snowballing more and more so that they need to take
30 to 50% of everything you make to keep it afloat because of, I mean, the misallocation of capital,
both just from poor decisions, you outline that little matrix.
It's somebody else's money and you're not spending it on yourself.
What do you think when it's your own money and you're spending it on yourself,
your incentive is to get the best possible product for the lowest possible price.
When it's not your money and it's not for you, neither of those things.
matter, especially when you have forever money. When you make bad decisions and you know that there's
always going to be more taxes coming in and you know that even if there's not enough taxes,
you can print more money, there's no incentive to do anything in an efficient manner. And that's what
we're seeing. Ben, you might not know this, but in the before time, there used to be these things
called charities and churches. And people voluntarily gave to them because they had money that they
could give and they gave a shit about their community and didn't outsource even their altruism
to the state, which, by the way, I love that point. It was driving up the wall. You voting to
give other people's money to other people does in no way make you a good person. Fuck off with that.
Yeah, 100%. 100%. Now, I do want to have something positive here.
Okay. Coming, well, I'm going to say out of Canada, but is it out of Canada? No, it's out of the
free state of Alberta. And despite the government's best efforts to continue to euthanize anybody with
any affliction, Alberta has just worked to ban made, short for medical assistance in dying,
for Canadians whose only medical condition is mental health related. So in other words,
if you're sad, we won't kill you for it. Yeah, it's quite, it's the little victories,
I suppose we still have the,
we still have the state going around executing people.
But at the very least,
at the very least,
the free state of Alberta has decided to stand up and say,
no more killing people with seasonally affected disorder.
Like no more killing depressed 26-year-olds, you monsters.
Yeah.
I hope this makes a dent into that stat that we showed on this show
a couple weeks ago,
where we're now euthanizing more humans than dogs.
Yeah, about one in five of deaths.
I think it was like,
I think I saw it was like 18%
for medical assistance and death,
which I hate their euphemisms.
They're like names for bills.
It's medical assistance and death.
You're euthanizing them.
If you want to be more blunt, you're killing them.
You were killing them.
At least it qualifies as murder.
State assisted suicide.
Sure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It is what it is.
On the opposite side.
Man, I try to sprinkle in positive things,
but come on.
The UK House of Lord,
just legalized abortion up to birth, basically.
There's some nuance here, but effectively, you can't get it done through practitioners,
but it removes any sort of legal implication if a woman does it herself up to the moment of birth.
Human civilizations for thousands of years have been sacrificing children.
in terms of like fourth turning and we say degeneracy and horrors of our culture.
I'm hoping this is a top signal.
Yeah, God, I hope so.
I want one last thing here.
I mean, I'm really going to change gears here, but something cool came across my radar.
Cool.
I don't.
I have my reservations, but Francis Culliott shared this.
It's something called, Am I Exposed?
Although he's running it locally, that's interesting.
Right.
So you may be able to self-host.
So basically a privacy scanner that checks your UTXOs to see how private or non-private they are.
If you can run this locally, then I would try it.
It depends because is there any API calls in the background?
Is it communicating with like Anthropic or Chagogy?
Is it sending off the data to an L.
to process.
Because if it's not,
if there's not sort of like external calls,
then maybe,
because I'm with you.
I'm curious,
but I'm very hesitant to give an app
that says,
am I exposed,
my information,
thus potentially exposing me to them.
Exactly.
My thoughts, exactly.
So he said,
built to fill the gap
left by OXT.
This is from the samurai guys.
Again,
another casualty of the state.
So it runs 100% client side,
no back end,
no tracking,
paste an address or TXID, get a zero to 100 privacy score with specific findings.
And if you run Umbral, you can use this app directly from your node.
The engine implements over 30 heuristics that evaluate the on-chain privacy of your transactions and addresses.
It includes labels for 30 million addresses, 650 entities.
What can it analyze?
Transaction ID and address an entire wallet with an ex-pub or descriptor, a PSBT before signing it,
So you can assess your privacy before broadcasting.
That's super fucking interesting.
When you run a search, you get a privacy score, transaction graph,
showing inputs, outputs, deterministic links,
and a top recommendation.
Switching to cypherpunk mode unlocks much more.
Wallet, fingerprints, visual tracing, similar to OXT, deeper analysis.
That's wild.
That's super cool.
So anyways, I want to, I, what I'm going to do,
I have a tutorial wallet that I do in all.
my videos that I use in all my videos and that thing is docks to shit. So I just want to,
I just want to plug it in and see what comes back for that because that would be really,
I'm going to play with that. I think this is a video in the making. I think this is a solid
tutorial to do. Throw us a comment in the chat if you want Ben to make this one. Let me know how
that goes because if it's looking good and it's all local, I'm probably going to give it the old
college try here. Yeah. Yeah. It's, I mean, you can't know until you use like some of these
adversarial tools. I love the PSBT thing to check before you broadcast.
Yeah. That's good because it's just like warning, you do this, you're fucking your setup.
Like that, that's very useful. So, yeah. Anyways, I'll not do a follow up on that and give it a try.
But either way, thank you guys all for watching. What a blast. Good time. Hope you guys enjoyed Bitcast the other night too.
That was an absolute banger.
And Nathan, what do you got coming up this week?
I've got an interview that should be out on Tuesday.
We'll see how things go recording on Monday.
Interview coming up with Dave Colum and Simon Dixon sitting down and having a chat.
And I was very excited to get those two together.
So we'll be diving into the latest and greatest, probably a lot on what's currently going on in the precious metals markets, markets overall, Bitcoin and, of course, the Iranian conflict and where they see it going.
Nice.
Awesome.
Awesome.
And keep your eyes out.
Aqua just had a refresh of their wallet.
so the interface changed up.
I put together a video on that.
That should be dropping tomorrow.
And then, of course, we'll be hitting you guys up with tons of great stuff in the next week.
So subscribe to you haven't already.
With that, I'm out.
I'm Ben.
This was Nathan.
And this was your weekly session.
See you guys next time.
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