Locked In with Ian Bick - I Was a Bitcoin Kingpin — Now I’ve Been on Home Confinement for 6+ Years Awaiting Trial | Joby Weeks

Episode Date: March 16, 2026

Joby Weeks was once a major figure in the early days of Bitcoin, building a massive cryptocurrency business during the wild west of crypto. But after federal investigators targeted his operation, his life changed overnight. In this episode of the Locked In Podcast, Joby reveals how he ended up trapped on home confinement for more than six years while still awaiting trial on federal charges. He breaks down the Bitcoin boom, the investigation that shut everything down, and what it’s like living under strict government restrictions for years without a resolution to his case. _____________________________________________ #bitcoin #cryptocrime #ianbick #lockedinpodcast #truecrime #federalprison #homeconfinement #crypto _____________________________________________ Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en https://ianbick.com/ _____________________________________________ Shop Locked In Merch: http://www.ianbick.com/shop _____________________________________________ Timestamps: 00:00 Arrested by Federal Agents – The BitClub Case 01:00 Six Years on House Arrest 03:00 What Life Is Like on Home Confinement 08:00 Early Life and Family Background 13:00 Becoming an Entrepreneur 18:00 Manatech Business Success & Giving Back 22:00 Discovering Bitcoin and Early Crypto Investing 26:00 Building the BitClub Crypto Mining Empire 31:00 Political Activism and Cannabis Legalization 36:00 The Liberty Dollar & Ron Paul Movement 41:00 Bitcoin Mining, Data Centers & Crypto Expansion 45:00 Federal Indictment and Missing Bitcoin Allegations 50:00 Years in Legal Limbo on House Arrest 54:00 Fighting the Federal Case – Lawsuits & Plea Deals 01:00:00 Faith, Reflection, and Waiting for Freedom 01:02:00 Final Thoughts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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building, no signs. You know, I'm like if these are really cops, I should be going to jail and meet a judge, see a lawyer. No, they take me to this building. They're trying to hustle me for my private keys. I'm like, no, I need to keep my Bitcoin so that I can pay for a lawyer, pay for bail. And they disappeared me for 11 months. They bounced me around the country from jail to jail to jail, state to jail, state to state to state. My family didn't know where I was for 11 months. Kobe Weeks helped build a massive Bitcoin operation during the early days of cryptocurrency, but when the federal government came after him, everything changed. Now he's been stuck on home confinement for over six years without ever going to trial.

So the reason why we're here, so the audience knows, because I don't just pack up and go anywhere for anyone, but you've been on home confinement for the last six years. I have. Yeah, it's good to be here, Ian. Thanks for having me on. Got the ankle monitor. Got the ankle monitor on, you know. Is that one of the ones you have to charge? Got to charge it every day. You know, and then there's a little reader device over there that sees how many steps away from the device I go and the alarms go off if I even walk out the front door.

Have you like mapped it out like in the movie Disturbia where you put like the little the notes and stuff or the markers? No, I haven't gone that far. But, you know, what was going on is because we're on the ocean, sometimes the cell towers and things will ping wrong. and they'll call me in the middle of the night saying I'm 100 yards out in the middle of the ocean and I'm like, no, I'm actually in bed right now. They're like, oh, sorry about that. I'm like, so we got a lot of false positives with this thing.

I had the ankle monitor on for a year, so I somewhat feel your pain, but mine wasn't the chargeable one. It was just the, they had the box and it was the radar detector one. So if I left a certain radius, normally like outside the apartment building, they would get notified.

But I always wanted the GPS one because then they could show that I'm at work, whereas the other one, they call you randomly and everything like that. So it was annoying. I haven't been able to go swimming in six years. So it's almost torture looking at the ocean, but not being able to jump in, you know? Now, you could take a shower, take a bath. You can't take showers. I just can't submerse it. Okay.

I heard they've probably invented new technology over the last six years of being on house arrest. I heard they might have a watch you can wear or whatever. Yeah, the feds have that now where it's, I've interviewed a few guys. and halfway house home confinement. It's a watch and you have another phone with it. See, I don't know. I'm just hoping that this thing comes off sooner and later. I don't really want to file any more motions. Well, now the second crazy part about your situation is that you're not sentenced. This is all you're on pretrial right now. Pre-trial. Yeah, but I can't go anywhere or do anything, have a phone or a computer, or even hold the remote control to the TV because the TV is connected to

the internet and I can't have a job, can't have a bank account, can't use crypto, can't go to weddings or funerals or church. Got to have a guard, watch me 24-7, and I'm drug-tested twice a week. And can't go to the gym. Nope, can't even get fresh air or sunlight. Yeah, you have a lot of, like, knick-knacks around here, I've noticed.

Like, you look like... You look like someone that's literally trapped. Like, you have a bunch of gadgets and toys and stuff in here. Yeah, yeah, anything to try to keep myself young and occupied, you know? So let's talk about how you got here. Where did you grow up? Where are you from? I was born in Colorado.

So was there until about kindergarten, then moved back to the East Coast with my dad and mom were both from the East Coast. So we lived in Massachusetts for up until high school and then moved back to Colorado. Oh, New Englander. Yeah. I'm from Connecticut. Yeah, we were right on the border of Springfield, Massachusetts, where the Basketball Hall of Fame is just on the border of Connecticut. Yeah, it's only an hour and a half from me. We go to Springfield every so often.

Yeah, yeah. And that's funny. Grew up there and then came back. my dad was ski patrol. He met my mom at Steamboat. And so that's why I was born in Colorado. And then he became a history and economics teacher. So kind of grew up. He never made more than $20,000 a year. So, you know, we had to, hey, he had the summers off, which was nice. But, you know, everything that we got was from the Salvation Army of the Goodwill or hitting up yard sales and stuff. So I didn't come from money, although my dad's dad and their parents, they had money.

But dad became a Christian and decided he didn't want to take over the family companies and wanted to work at a Christian school. So that's kind of how I grew up. Do you think his thought process made you the, or was the reason why you went a certain direction in life? Well, I kind of had to become an entrepreneur because we had no money. So I was doing all the odd jobs, mowing lawn, shoveling snow, going door knocking to sell candy bars, you know, for my Little League baseball team.

And so anything that I could do to make money, I would do because we didn't have any money otherwise. Aside from an entrepreneur, how were you as a kid? How would you have described yourself? I was into sports. So I played all the sports. And my brother was a straight A student. And I was more of a 3.0 student.

I, you know, I was somewhat more of a rebel rouser than he was, you know, going through elementary school. And I guess that's what I kind of discovered that a lot of things that we were all brought up, at least I was taught. A lot of the things weren't true. I remember learning how dangerous marijuana was. And then, you know, in eighth grade, I tried smoking pot. I was like, this isn't dangerous. They're lying to me. What else are they lying to me about? You know, so, you know, I lived a sheltered life.

And who were you closer to your mother or your father? Probably my mother. We have similar personalities. She's outgoing and the life of the party. My dad's more of an analytical. You know how the personalities. We've got blues, reds, yellows, and greens. So dad's a green kind of engineer likes to know why things are the way they are. and the blues are all about having fun. And the yellows, they're all about, you know, being a part of something bigger than themselves. They're more the support people. The reds are kind of like Donald Trump, you know, tell me yes, tell me no, tell me quick, I got to go.

They're the drivers. They build the buildings and drive the fancy, flashy cars, you know. Did your mom agree with your father's mindset about, like, living and where he wanted to go in life? Yeah, well, she wanted, you know, she was a respiratory therapist at the hospital. And, you know, dad was like, hey, you know, by being a teacher for a Christian school, you can be a stay-at-home mom. And she had her little side businesses. Back then, there was a company called Amway so that she was selling all the various Amway products. And then a company called Manatech came along, which really helped her with her health.

And so she started selling that and got a team going with her girlfriends and stuff. And next thing you know, my mom's making more in a month than my dad was making in a year. And so she kind of had the entrepreneur spirit and I respected that. And so, you know, when we go on our road trips and stuff, we would listen to the tape of the week, Jim Rohn, Tony Robbins, Brian Tracy, Tom Hopkins, all these motivational speaker people that would kind of get you in the mindset of being an entrepreneur and profits are better than wages, stuff like that. So I grew up going to the conferences and seminars and, you know, reading the books. Did you go to college? I got accepted into college, but I never got around going. I read a book called Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki's book.

And I was like, wait a second. Then he had another one called a Rich Dad's Guide to Investing, the Cash Flow Quadrant, another one, retire young, retire rich. So I thought, well, if I was, want to retire young and retire rich, I should probably read this book. So I did. And then I followed what he said. And by 19, I was a millionaire. And so no, I didn't go to college because I already had the house on the on the lake. My backyard was a beach. I had wakeboard every day. And then I just decided college will probably always be there for me when I'm like 90, you know. So I wanted to go see the

world instead of reading about Greece. I just wanted to go to Greece. And so I took off for six years and went to 100 plus countries by myself just exploring the world. And how are you making money? I was selling the Manatech products with my mother. So they basically patented a powder that's the raw materials needed to replicate the human body because every seven years you get a new body. So it's got all the vitamins and minerals and antioxidants, glycronutrients, phytosterols, digestive enzymes, prolacs, central oils, fatty acids.

It's basically everything you need to replicate the human body. And I was coming across people that had, all kinds of aches and pains. And I, you know, I was like, well, you should try this stuff. You know, the company's had a six-month 100% satisfaction guarantee. So it was really easy to sell because like try this stuff every day for six months. And if you're not fully satisfied, you get all your money back. How hard would that be to sell? Pretty easy. And the philosophy was pretty simple. When the cells are healthy, then your tissues are healthy, then the organs are healthy, then your systems are healthy. Then the body is healthy. So all disease and wellness is a

cellular event. So all you got to do is make sure the cells are being fed and cleansed, regulated, defender repair, they're going to communicate correctly. That happens. Then the body just heals itself. And so the company took off. We went public. The stock went from a dollar, share, to 44 bucks. Set up offices in 26 countries. We sold $4 billion worth of products. And we set up a donation through consumption model. So anytime somebody in America, Canada, or Australia would buy the product, we would donate that same amount of product to an orphan fighting malnutrition. The goal being to connect $5 million. consumers with 5 million children because that's how many kids die every year, about 20,000

children a day, die from malnutrition. So we've given away hundreds of millions of servings. We had an adopt an orphanage program. So that's kind of where I started was doing that. The internet was just coming out. And I remember really falling in love with Bitcoin because we had such a problem paying people. People in Canada would come in and pay with loonies. And they'd refer a friend who would pay in yen who tells their friend.

in Europe and they're paying in euros or pounds and they tell their friend in Australia who they're South Africa they get the rant, et cetera. So and trying to calculate the Forex exchange, we're taking money in here, but we're paying commissions in euros even though we're taking in dollars on that level. And then paying that yet on that level. It was crazy. We spent 30 million dollars on a computer system trying to calculate how to have a seamless global network. And then of course Bitcoin came out. I'm like, wait, we can just press a button and pay everyone everywhere instantaneously and no charge max. It was like the ultimate solution. So what year do you get into Bitcoin? 2011, maybe, something like that. And describe where you're at business-wise. Are you

successful? Is a business still doing well? Do you have money? So the business has been going since 1994. So 30 years. So the business is still going. And I decided I was going to travel around the world and invest in other companies and disruptive technologies that I'd come across. I remember seeing electronic cigarettes in China, and nobody had ever seen or heard of them in America. So I brought some back and we put together a company called Enjoy. And I used to do all these trade shows. I don't know if you remember the, you know, the original vape. So I actually interviewed a guy that was doing trade shows like that, that a shipment accidentally went to the Dominican Republic, where it was

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Crazy, yeah. Well, I just, we, I bought a website, it's not smoke.com. It's just vapor.com. You know, because everyone's like, you can't smoke here. I'm like, it's not smoke.com. It's just vapor. And so that, you know, that company went. And then of course, you know, the pharmaceutical cartel came after us with Manateech

because all these people were getting well. and they just want you drinking their drugs that only go to manage symptoms and they don't like the competition. And same with the tobacco cartel. They didn't like it that the ESIG companies weren't paying a tobacco tax because our nicotine didn't come from tobacco. So they came after that. And so I just learned that, you know, there's entrenched interests in the status quo of people that

don't, they want a monopoly. They don't want competition. They want to jack up the prices. When competition is allowed, quality goes up and prices come down. But I kept on going around. I read a lot of books, climbed a bunch of mountains. I read a book called The Liberty Dollar Solution to the Federal Reserve. And I thought, I want to be a regional currency office for Liberty Dollar and mint gold and silver coins

because the Constitution clearly says lawful money is gold and silver, not this debt-based fiat currency that we all are using today. And so we were minting, we minted $100 million or so of gold, silver coins. We had about 20,000 merchants that took our money for their goods and services. And it was going great. And then one day Ron Paul decided to run for president in 2008. And I had already known about him because he had the Health Freedom Protection Act. And he had the Free Competition and Currency Act.

So when he decided to run for office, we're like, let's make a Ron Paul coin. I mean, there's Obama coins, Gandhi coins, Kines, MLK, K. K coins. Let's make a Ron Paul one. So we released it 60,000 people bought the coin that month. And we had all this money. So we did the Ron Paul Blimp and the Ron Paul limo, which I wrapped it in an American flag. I put freedom, liberty, sound money, private property, bring our troops home. And I took that limo to 30 states and all the debates. And so we got together. We're like, let's do this again. So we put together $5 million of gold, silver, platinum, copper. It was like four tons of Ron Paul coins. And right as we were going to deliver them to all. And we're going to deliver them

to all the people we took pre-orders, the feds came in with machine guns and stole it all. I'm like, why are you guys stealing silver and gold? Oh, they just didn't like Ron Paul's face in the coin because he wanted to audit the Fed. You know, if you read his books, Liberty Define, Foreign Policy of Freedom or Pillars of Prosperity, you just read the creature from Jekyll Island, you know what's going on with the Federal Reserve Bank. And so that took us seven years to get our money back from the government. They just did not like the message Ron Paul was speaking, you know. So then I came home and I had become friends with Ron Paul because I wanted to get politically active.

And so I lived in a Democrat neighborhood, but Ron Paul was running as a Republican. So for me to become elected all the way of the National Convention, I needed to first become a registrar and go door knocking, getting all my neighbors who are all Democrats to convert to become Republicans so they could vote for me. as a precinct chairperson. So, or a committee chairperson for my precinct. And then you get that together and you become a district captain. And then you got elected to the county assembly and then the congressional assembly and then the state convention. Then I got elected all the way to the national convention because I wanted to nominate

Ron Paul. But they stole the election from the guy. So I found out politics is dirty too. And so Ron said, he told me, go back. back to Colorado, do something at the local level, just focus on local politics. And I had lived in like this little ski town with like 3,000 people. It's called Breckenridge, Colorado. And so I thought, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to legalize weed. I think it was stupid that people should be able to grow their own medicine. It's practically impossible. If you just type

up all the diseases, cannabis, all the different kinds of cancer that works on and all this, I was like, you know, this is stupid and we need to change this. And no politician. we're going to introduce legislation to legalize cannabis because they were afraid of not getting reelected. But luckily, if we get enough signatures, we can bring our own issues to the ballot and circumvent the politicians. It's called a ballot initiative. So my friend Scott McAllister drafted up this ballot initiative that I needed to go collect signatures for. So I sat in front of the bank in the grocery store and the post office collecting signatures, got enough signatures to put it on the ballot. And Breckenridge voted yes, first town, 76% of the city. I'm

the town voted yes to legalize cannabis for anyone over the age of 21, which made Breckenridge the first town in America to do so. And then we took that to the other 64 counties within Colorado. It was called Prop 64. And then Colorado became the first state to legalize cannabis. So that was cool. But all the Republicans didn't like me for doing that. And I had been elected to my vice chairman for my county up in Summit County. And so they were, scheming behind the scenes of trying to take me out, which they eventually did. They nullified their own election so they could have another election where the people would actually show up because a lot of the people wouldn't show up to these various Republican events. So anyways, I only lasted about a month

and we had this kind of spat with the Republicans because they didn't like it that I was the guy that legalized cannabis and was supporting Ron Paul. Everybody up there seemed to like Mitt Romney. less, cannabis was legal now, and we had just been raided for our gold and Zover business. So I thought, I watched this movie called End Time with Justin Timberlake. It's a time is money. We've all heard the same time is money. And so it's a funny story. We decided we're going to make a time back currency so that people could issue their own currency

into the economy interest-free so they don't have to be debt slaves to the banking cartel. And so that's kind of when I kind of went head-to-head with the, the banks. We had a two-hour note, a one-hour note, a half-hour note, had another couple hundred businesses. We called it Mountain Hours. And then we did one in Denver called Mile High Hours and Aloha hours and Island hours and started to spread. And if you're starting a community currency, you need to make sure the producers accept it. So as long as you got the butcher and the brewery and the distillery and, you know, those guys taking it, then the restaurants will take the currency. And if the restaurants take the currency, then the mom and pop businesses, the chiropractor, the massage therapist, the mechanic, they'll take the currency.

So it was going. And that's when Bitcoin came out. And so I thought, oh, well, Bitcoin is quite the solution. You know, nobody knew what it was back then. We had a mint. So because nobody knew what a Bitcoin was. We designed the Bitcoin logo and put on the back of the coin, the private key. We called it a cold storage coin.

And so you got to, it's an encrypted currency, so you have to have a key. And most people are writing their keys down on paper, which is not floodproof or fireproof. So we decided we were going to laser etch it into the physical coin. It's trying to get kind of the gold and silverbug guys, the hard money people, with the crypto guys and kind of bring them together. And so that went viral. And back then, you could only get your Bitcoin on the Silk Road. So you first had to understand the Tor network and the dark web.

And then you find the Silk Road website. And then you got to find some sketchy seller that everybody seems to trust because it's like eBay, where you got five stars and stuff. And this guy had a lot of transactions. He was selling Bitcoin. So I went to CVS to get a green dot card. I never even used a green dot card before. And sent the guy 200 bucks.

He sent me back 250 Bitcoins, which at the time, 85 cents of Bitcoin. was, you know, pretty good. So, but I didn't really know what to do with the Bitcoin once I had it, because all you could do on the Silk Road was buy drugs, and I wasn't in the market for buying drugs. So I just left it on the Silk Road. And Bitcoin kept on going. And then they raided the Silk Road and stole everybody's Bitcoins.

In fact, the agents went to jail because when they raided the Bitcoin, the website, they actually didn't give the government the money that they stole. They kept it. And so those agents went to jail. for six years. So anyways, I thought the technology was interesting. I was pitched it based on how the BitTorrent Network worked. You remember Napster?

Yeah. Which was centralized and you could download music and movies, but that was easily shut down because central point of weakness. But the BitTorrent network had all the nodes everywhere, so you could download music and movies from lots of different computers around the world and then it would recombine it on your computer. And voila, you'd have a movie, but there was no central point of weakness. So my friend said, you know how the BitTorrent network works?

I'm like, yeah. Bitcoin is the currency that runs on the BitTorrent network. There's no central point of weakness. You can send value across the internet without having to go through a trusted third party, like a bank or a government. So the light bulb went off. I'm like, ah, that's a great invention. This could change the world, you know?

And so I bought some more Bitcoin on a exchange called Mount Gox. Unfortunately, that got hacked. So I lost all my bitcoins again. And so, you know, I was at this event called Porkfest, Porcupine Festival, it's put on by the Free State Project in New Hampshire. And there's a guy there named Vitalik. This was 2013. He was talking about Bitcoin and how he had an idea for something called Ethereum and where you could do smart contracts and stuff. So that's a good idea.

So I was right there when Ethereum launched and got a bunch of Ethereum. And then there was a Dow hack and they had to fork the technology. change. So I've lived through every single crazy event that's happened since Bitcoin was 85 cents. So how does that lead to your case, what you got charged with? Well, what happened was I got tired to just buying Bitcoin and getting hacked or buying Bitcoin and getting stolen. And somebody had mentioned how mining works. And I thought, oh, mining Bitcoin. That's like buying a machine that prints money. And I had already understood what Robert Kiyosaki says. The difference between rich people and poor people is poor people, they get their money and they instantly spend it for rent or insurance or

car payment or food or what they comes in and they instantly spend it. And it's out. So then they have to keep working. Rich people make their money and instead of instantly spending it on their bills, they put the money into an asset first and then the asset generates cash flow to pay their rent in their car payment and all that kind of stuff. So they just take the same money, but they put in the asset first, and then the asset buys the stuff. So then you can grow your asset. You never want to take 50 grand and just buy a car.

Take 50 grand, put it in the asset. The asset generates cash flow to pay the car payment. Three years later, the car is paid off. You still have the asset generating cash flow to buy you jet skis or a motorboat. So I looked at Bitcoin as like the golden egg, and I looked at Bitcoin mining as the goose that lays the golden egg. But I want to take my money, put it in miners, and then have miners an asset spit off cash flow, Bitcoin. But I couldn't find anybody to sell me any equipment.

And I had already tried to buy some equipment from companies like Butterfly Labs. But they take your money and then they never delivered the miners. So that was frustrated to me. And I ended up on Necker Island. And a company called Bitfury was sponsoring an event. And then Richard Branson was there and it was cool to meet all these guys. But Bitfury was actually making the chips that mine Bitcoin, these ASIC chips. When you started out, you can do it on a laptop computer, CPUs.

And then somebody thought, oh, we can do it on graphics cards, GPUs like Nvidia and the GPUs. And then the Bitfuri guys were like, let's make ASIC chips that are even faster. They're specific to hash, they call it the 256 algorithm, Shaw and Shaw 256. So after the event, I was like, well, you guys sell me some equipment. They're like, no, we don't sell the equipment. I'm like, why? They're like, this equipment prints money. Why would we sell you a machine that prints money when we could keep the machine

and print money ourselves? And I thought, well, I guess you got a point, you know? So I couldn't understand why they were sponsoring the event if they didn't want any customers. That was foreign to me because every time I'd sponsor a event, I was there to go get more customers. That was the whole reason why I sponsored the event. These guys were doing the opposite.

I was like, what the heck. But I kept on them. And I, you know, every week I'd probably reach out, hey, can I buy a machine that prints money? No. They totally know. But I just don't take no for an answer. I just kept on harassing them. And in the meantime, I heard about this organization called BitClub, a private membership association,

that had a data center up in Iceland. And they were running a trip up there for us to meet the owners and see the data center. So I show up. 200 people are there. They take us through the data centers. and I find myself in the Crystal Lagoon with Matt and Russ, the owners. And I just ask them like, hey, this is cool. Where are you getting your equipment from?

And they said, a Chinese outfit called Bitmain. I said, okay. Well, how much are you guys paying for it? And they said 300,000 a petahash. And I thought, maybe I could get a bit. My light bulb went off. Maybe I could get these guys a better price. So I call up the Bit Fury guys and I'm like, hey, I might have a customer.

Are you guys down to sell me some equipment? Like, please? And they're like, we'll sell you equipment, but only you. And I'm like, oh, perfect. So how much is it? It's a million bucks. Okay. So the idea was, get a quote from them, mark it up a little bit, and send the quote

that way, and see if they'd buy it or not. And I would just stand in the middle. Well, they gave me a quote. It beat the Chinese. So bid, clubs said yes. So I sent them some equipment. And we spent the next couple of years, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, back and forth, bringing the price of Bitcoin mining hardware from 300,000 of Petahash to 150,000

of Petahash, which saved the members of BitClub millions of dollars. So I brought on all my friends, my mom, my dad, my uncles, aunts, and cousins, and my brother. And I'm like, we can all mine Bitcoin. This is perfect. And this is going to change the world. And they all thought I was crazy, but they believed me and they did it. And we watched Bitcoin go from $1 to $10,000, $100,000, $1,000, $100,000, $100,000. All the way, it's $100,000. And so BitClubs started flying me all around to speak at various conferences and build data centers for them. We were looking for cheap electricity.

So we set up data centers all over the place because the real way to make a profit mining Bitcoin is you got to get cheap power. And so anyways, they ended up raising $700 million. We built these huge data centers. We mined 92,000 bitcoins and a half million Ethereum, which is 10,000. billion dollars. They had over a million members in a hundred different countries and it was huge. It was so exciting. And we were just thrilled. And I thought maybe we'll be on the cover of Time magazine, you know, for building the fastest company to a billion dollars in sales faster than

Google, Facebook, Amazon, not market cap, but actual sales. And getting the whole world, I went to 175 countries, getting the whole world millions of people on Bitcoin. And then one day at Tony Robbins, I was kidnapped, a date with destiny by the feds that indicted me saying that I was selling an unregistered security. And I'm like, computer equipment is not a security. It's a physical product. Amazon does it. I cloud, Google, Azure. All these guys have data centers with a computer equipment in it.

You can depreciate the computer equipment. they wanted to say it's an unregistered security. So I get taken to this unmarked building, like no signs. You know, I'm like, if these are really cops, I should be going to jail and meet a judge, see a lawyer. No, they take me to this building. They're trying to hustle me for my private keys. I'm like, no, I need to keep my Bitcoin so that I can pay for a lawyer, pay for bail. And so that perturbed them.

And they disappeared me for 11 months. They bounced me around the country from jail to jail to jail, state to state to state, state to state. My family didn't know where I was for 11 months. Who were the agents? IRS, FBI, the marshals, all of them. It's probably CIA guys too. I mean, if you think about it, the SWIF system, you know, the Bank for International settlements is the central bank of the world, right? They got the member banks like the IMF, the World Bank, the bank of England, the Federal Reserve Bank, etc.

And then you've got the corresponding banks like J.B. Morgan, Jason, Bank, American, all that. And then underneath that, it's like the thousands of mom and pop banks. So this whole Swift system, about $3.5 trillion has left that system to go into crypto. So they weren't having about this. This is back in 2019. There was no Black Rock and no Goldman Sachs. We didn't have a strategic Bitcoin reserve. They were coming out strong against it. It was Obama called it Operation Choke Point. where they de-platform us and debank us and all that stuff. So they couldn't stop Bitcoin because you can't stop gravity.

You have to shut down the internet everywhere all at the same time. They're not going to do that. So next level down is who's secure in the blockchain. The miners do that. Who is the biggest Bitcoin mining outfit in the world? BitClub. Who is the face of Bitcoin? Me.

I was the one speaking at all the conferences. And I'm sure they didn't like the fact that I was saying that Social Security is a big Ponzi scam and that, you know, The world is run by a bunch of devil worshiping child traffic and pedophiles. So, you know, they didn't like that stuff. And so they came after me. I had raided Jeffrey Epstein's island to see if he was really dead or not with some friends of mine. We took a speedboat up and ran around, filmed it and stuff.

He wasn't there. Threw the video up on YouTube, two million views, you know, and they arrested me a couple days later. Wait, you actually got on the island? Yeah, we took a speedboat to the island, yeah. What were you able to see? The whole thing, you can watch it. It's a, we are change. Jeff Epstein. I was with Luke Radowski and Jeff Berwick.

And, no, we just took a speedboat to the dock, jumped off, ran around with the cameras, and then jumped out. It was security saw us after about a half hour on the island going from building to building and building. Chased us, jumped in the boat, spent away. Wow. Yeah, you know, so I was doing kind of some rebel-rousing things. So they arrest you when you said they brought you all over the country to different locations. Where were they bringing me? So they denied me bail.

They denied me a trial. You did see a judge. I saw a judge in Florida. Yeah, yeah. Finally. After how long? Oh, it was... A little waste.

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Okay, and what does the judge have formally charged you with? Selling an unregistered security and wire fraud. So I see this judge, his name is Matthewman, in West Palm Beach. And after, the Constitution works like this. you get indicted, you get arrested, then you get bail, then you get to trial, and if you're convicted after trial, then you go to jail, after you've been convicted. They skip all that, as you know. They'll throw people into jail for two, three years just on a complaint.

They've never even been indicted. And these poor people don't know their rights. And it doesn't even really matter because I knew my rights and they still violated it. It's like, why did these guys even take an oath of office to the Constitution if they refuse to follow it? They're total criminals. So they bounce me all around from West Palm to Miami over to Oklahoma up to New Jersey and Pennsylvania. They call diesel therapy, you know, and they got to take you from New York City to Newark.

And it's a half hour drive, but they send you to Chicago first and then Seattle and then San Francisco and then L.A. And a couple of days in Vegas down to Houston. Six months, eight months later, you finally get to Newark. You know, it's diesel therapy. And what are you just kept in detention center? Yeah, check in and check out. moving and check me and check me out are you with other inmates oh yeah they're moving me yeah i was actually flown around on some private jets too it was con air we got to get indicted to be invited

so it was interesting it was an interesting experience and so i then um get my my lawyers come to me and they say listen i'm like how are they able to violate the constitution they're like well they made a lot of these loopholes for for people uh so they can get away with violating your rights and due process. Number one, for instance, is you have a right to a speedy trial unless the judge says that the case is a complex case. Then she does what's called ends of justice ruling and then waves your right for a speedy trial. And then I'm like, well, don't I get bail? And they're like, no, not if you are a flight risk. So if they just deem you to be a flight risk, now they can deny you bail. I'm like, so if they're not going to give me a trial, they got to give me bail. If they're not

going to give me bail, then they have to give me a trial. You can't just take away both and just throw me in jail. That's against the Constitution. Oh, well, you know, they also say that you have a right to bear arms shall not be infringed. It doesn't say, unless you're a felon. Like, they always make up all these loopholes to violate our rights. They're a bunch of criminals, right? Especially in New Jersey. I mean, we saw what happened in New Jersey with Alina Haba Trump tried to install her as the U.S. attorney, but the Senate refused to confirm her. So the judges got together. And, put somebody else in, and then Pam Bondi stepped in, fired that person and put Alina Haba back in. While the judges got all upset about that, said it's unconstitutional and kicked out Alina

Habba again. Trump does not have any control over the District of New Jersey. It's like, you know, so I'm just dealing with leftover lawfare from the Biden regime. It was a heist. They stole billions of dollars. The data center alone was making $5 million a day in Bitcoin. So what do you mean they stole billions of dollars from you? Well, the data center's like from not just me, but a million other members. I mean, everybody was getting paid. If you turn $700 million into $10 million and everybody gets rich and there's no victims, no injured party, no one was standing to sue until the government comes in with machine guns

and steals everybody's money and all the equipment. So who creates the victims? Hello? So that was the big predicament here is like there's a lot of people the government harmed for their unlawful action just trying to stifle Bitcoin. No, did they get access to your Bitcoin. They did. They raided my parents' house.

They stole my computers, hard drives, phones, all this stuff. And how did they get into it? They were very clever. Like when I sat down, because I had known that the story is a deep story. I didn't know how much time we got, but basically I found out that there was an investigation going on us because I had been hacked for about 50 million bucks. I got sim swapped. You can look up the story on the New York Times.

So I go to the FBI to say I got hacked. FBI does nothing. So I hired my own team of hacker guys that contract the Bitcoin. And we wanted to basically create a company that would catch these bad actors that were giving Bitcoin a bad rap. They would lock up a hospital with ransomware, etc. So I found the hacker in the Philippines. I get this whole dossier.

What, you know, casino. He's laundering the money. It was actually a lady boy. It was like a stocker, tranny ladyboy hacker. Like, I got pictures of the guy and everything. So, anyways, I go back to the FBI with this dossier. I'm like, here's where the hacker is. They won't do anything.

The Philippine FBI wouldn't do anything. I tracked it to a wall with over a billion dollars in it. I'm like, oh, my gosh. So this has to be a state actor that's protected because neither side wants to go get this guy who just stole a bunch of money not only from me, but my friends and family, too. So I'm complaining about this, and I was also complaining a friend of mine, Roger Ver, who's owned Bitcoin.com, about how Americans are always being blocked from joining all these great crypto opportunities.

Like, everybody in the world can join except for Iranians, North Koreans, and Americans. Americans were banned from every company. And he said, well, just buy a house in St. Kitt. If you buy a house and St. Kitt, they give you a passport, then you can join as a sanctitition instead of an American. And then you can have access to these opportunities. And I'm like, I thought America was supposed to be the land of the free. So, boy, was I mistaken.

So when I went to the FBI, they were wondering how I could have so much Bitcoin to get stolen from in the first place. They started an investigation on me because when I went down to St. Kitts to buy the house and everything, the passport showed up. My wife had hers, but I didn't have mine. So I called the lawyers and I said, what happened to my passport? And they said, oh, how do we say this? there's an investigation going on on you and until that's over we can't give you the passport so I'm like

okay well do you know who's investigating me and they're like no and so I called my hacker guys that do moonlight jobs on the side for interpol and catching animal poachers whatever and so I called them and I said is this true is there an investigation going on they're like yeah I'm like well who they called me back two days later some guys at the treasury they're investigating you

okay well set up a meeting So they set up this meeting of in Washington, D.C. at the Ritz Carlton. So I fly to D.C. sit down with these treasury agents. I was kind of interested to see what they were going to be investigating me before. Was it for the minting of the golden silver or the mount hours or for curing cancer and Madtech or for the tobacco? Because I had been doing a lot of legalizing cannabis. I mean, I wasn't making a lot of friends on either side of the aisle.

You know, I'm more of a libertarian. So they wanted to know everything about BitClub. So I'm like, okay, well, here's some. some pictures and the data centers and the invoices and here's Bick Club. And they're like, so after about an hour's worth of chatting with those guys, I think the investigation's over. So I fly back down to St. Kids. I'm like, all right, it's done. I met with the agents. It should be all fine. And they're like, no, the investigation's still going on. I'm like, really? Okay, well, what do I do? They're like, I guess you just sit around and wait.

So I was trying to get my daughter and they get a split of world records for being the youngest child to travel. So we did all 50 states in 42 days at 43 days old. So she would be the fastest to, you know, go to America. And then I bought El Chapo's airplane from the treasury and bounced around to 45 countries by her first birthday. And so long and the short, she got, you know, she's the most traveled baby, right? Liberty. And so that's why I was bouncing around the islands, which is why we then raided Jeffrey Epstein's island. because we were already there hitting up all these little Caribbean countries

you know so that's kind of the back story of oh so what happened was they raided one of the data centers so I got a phone call hey the feds just raided the data center I'm like it was in Tbilisi Georgia on the other side of the world

I'm like what the heck so I called up the agents because I still had their car and I'm like why did you guys raid the data center oh well we've got some more questions I'm like I got date with destiny tickets to Tony Robbins I was trying to be friends with the guys I'm an idiot. I know, I'm an idiot. Anyways, I invited him to meet me in West Palm. I had some extra tickets.

So I show up with the smoothies and my laptop because they're like, well, we want to see these contracts and everything. So I sit down with these agents. I open up, I open up and put the password in on my laptop. So to show them the pictures and the invoices that we're actually doing what we said we were doing, mining Bitcoin. You can see the wallet, 92,000 bitcoins. Everybody's getting paid, blah, blah, blah. and as I opened the laptop and type in the password, that's when they grabbed me and they grabbed my laptop and kept it open. That's how they did it. And they were able to transfer all the Bitcoin.

Yes. How much Bitcoin was in there? Well, on that one, there was about, I don't know, eight Bitcoin on that laptop. But they got most all of it. Wow. And if they didn't, I wouldn't tell you anyways. Okay. Let's just put it that way.

They transfer you around for nine months, 10 months, different facilities. Yeah. How do you finally get released? So my lawyers come to me And they're like Okay, so they're not going to give you a trial for like five years Because it's a complex case

And they're not going to give you bail Because you're flight at risk, blah, blah, blah. So you have a choice to make. I'm like, well, what's my choice? And they're like, well, what would you rather have? Five years in jail and innocent Or one year in jail and guilty. I'm like, well, what do you mean?

Well, here's the deal. You're not going to get a trial to prove your innocence for five years and you're going to have to stay in jail. But if you just say you're guilty, they'll let you go home tomorrow. If you just admit two plus two is five, you can leave tomorrow. But if you insist, two plus two is four, then they're going to keep you in here for the next five years. Well, what am I supposed to be guilty for?

They're like, they want you to eat a tax charge. A tax charge, I wasn't indicted for taxes. That's not the point. Just say you killed Abraham Lincoln and you can go home tomorrow. I'm like, I can say I killed Abraham Lincoln, but what if they ask? That's impossible. You died 150 years ago. I wasn't alive back then.

Just say it. They're all acting anyways. I'm like, well, can I at least reverse my plea once I get home? And they're like, yeah, as long as you reverse your plea before sentencing, then, you know, you're good. I'm like, okay. Two plus two is five. They're like, thank you very much.

You can go home. So I get home. So I got to fill out all this paperwork to reverse my plea agreement. So you pled guilty to tax. Taxes and selling unregistered securities. And you had filed taxes? Yeah. It says on.

line that you had missed three years. Is that true or false? Well, I file as what's called a 1040 NR form, non-resident alien form. Meaning you were out of the country and didn't know file? Yeah, because I lived in Mexico. I had a house in Mexico too. But if you have dual citizenship, don't you have to, aren't you responsible for tax? Yeah, so that's why I was filing 1040s instead of just straight 1040s. And do you pay taxes still? Or? On income, if I make income, yeah. Okay. So do you think if you don't make any income, you don't have to pay any income tax? So you weren't making any income and you didn't pay income tax. I wasn't making any income.

Okay. So you plead guilty to that. Yeah. But why would you agree to that, you know, morally if you had nothing, you know? Because they weren't going to give me a trial for five years. But why still agree to something you didn't do? Well, because then I could cut out and reverse it. So that's what I did.

I got out and then I reversed the plea. Did you think about asking another attorney? No. And these attorneys are paid attorneys? Of course. Yeah. So they were paid attorneys. That's why I fired them.

I hired on a guy named David Boyes who the Yale Law School is named after the guy. So I hire him on because Hunter Biden worked for him for 10 years. And I thought, this is Democrat CIA Lawfare. It's a political case. This is not a legal case. So I needed to get political people. And so all they wanted to do is put me on the railroad track and railroad me and take millions of dollars for me. So I fired them.

And then I thought, okay, well, Trump is in now. I'll hire Alan Dershowitz because he represented. at Trump and he taught at Harvard for 50 years. So, Dershowitz put together this great white paper on all the illegal stuff the government was doing. And I figured, you know, after teaching at Harvard for 50 years and he knows that side of the aisle,

that it might work. It's on the docket. Put it on the docket. I decided after, you know, six years of them bleeding me out because I can't go anywhere to do anything, I have a job or a computer or any of this stuff. So I got to figure out with my hands tied, duct tape on my mouth, my feet tied, how I'm even supposed to survive and provide for my family

when I can't do anything. So I thought, I'm just going to sit here and read the law. So I read 30,000 pages of law. And I decided I'm going to just write my own motions and get myself free. Wait, so they let you out on house or us. That was a condition when you signed that guilty. Yes. Yes. And what was sentencing supposed to be a few months later? Of course. So what happens? Why didn't it happen? There's never been a case in history where you know, plead guilty in 2020, and at 2026, you still haven't been sentenced. Do you have co-defendants? Six years. Do you have co-defendants? I have co-defendants. There's five of us. So what happened to that? So Matt, the main character that starred BitClub is trying to go to trial.

So I thought, oh, this will be easy. I'll reverse my plea and I'll just go to trial with Matt. They still haven't given him a trial either. So are they all a way to trial? They've had 33 continuances. They've got through 12 prosecutors. So what happened is I put my. my motions in a way where I report all these felonies that the government's involved in. When you report a felony to an officer of government, if they don't do anything about it, it's called a misprison of a felony and they become accessories after the fact. So the three prosecutors read what I write, and then they quit. And then three more prosecutors come on.

They read, write, then they quit. And three more come on, then they quit. And then three more come on. They run through 12 prosecutors. They keep asking for continuances. And then the judges just rubber stamp it, continuance, continuance, continuance, continuance. So has no one been sentenced on the case? No.

None of the co-defendants. Are they on home confinement? Yes. They're all on home confinement too. We're breaking world records here. Wow. Yes, the craziest case. So how long after do you fire your attorneys and you go pro se?

Well, the most recent run. of firings was January 20th of 20, are we in 26th? Yeah, 26. The day Trump got inaugurated. I fired everybody. I was like, hallelujah. Trump knows lawfare. I'm dealing with lawfare. Maybe this will work. You know, there's a new sheriff in town because, you know, Biden wasn't going to do anything. So have you been able to successfully reverse the plea? No, I haven't been successful on anything. I mean, three pass. Case dismissed with the judges, but they're not going to do that because they hate me and they don't follow the Constitution in their criminals. So I got dropped the charges by the DOJ, which I've submitted everything on the docket,

very clear on all the errors and problems with this case so that they're covered to just drop the charges. And then I also filled out pardon paperwork the other day because I'm like, I don't think the DOJ is going to do this either. So I met a guy named Peter Tipkin, who's been friends with Trump for 65 years. they went to military school together, you know, when they were 15 years old. He's one of Trump's attorneys, too. Trump has thousands of attorneys.

So he's one of Trump's attorneys. And so he filed all the paperwork for me to go through the pardon attorney Ed Martin and Alice Johnson and, you know, the White House counsel people and all that stuff. So that's been done too. So now it's like, okay, I'm on three paths right now. I'm hoping one of them works. I've got an eight-month-old son here. I'm trying to be a father.

I'm trying to, I got a seven-year-old daughter. I'm like, okay, I'm not going to mess with the banking cartel anymore. Sorry. You know, I won't do this anymore. Just, I don't know how long they can just keep you on a house arrest. Do you talk to the other co-defendants in the case? No, not allowed to talk to them. Nope.

Wow. Yeah. It's crazy. How much time were you facing on that plea deal? What do you sign for? Oh, they're going to give me, um, a time served. Oh, they're going to be time served. I did 11 months.

So the idea was, they wanted me to testify at trial against my co-defendant. That's what they wanted me to do. They're like, if you can find us some criminals, then we'll give you this letter, a 5K1 letter or whatever it's called, and then we'll tell the judge you cooperated with us, and then you'll just get time served at sentencing. And they said they give me my assets back and all this other stuff. They never gave me my assets back. It was fraudulent inducement because had I known that the government wasn't going to actually

follow through with any of the promises the government made at the time I made the plea I would have never made the plea to begin with. So did you cooperate? And then no, I didn't cooperate because the criminals that I found were them. I literally like I've spent the last couple of years looking for criminals to help you guys on a case and stuff and I found out you guys are the criminals. That's why I'm suing them. I'm suing six judges, 12 prosecutors, the SEC, the IRS, the FBI, 50 agents and the clerks under RICO, the Sherman Act, the Hobbs Act, the Sherman and trust act and the Tucker's Act. Literally.

I'm literally suing six judges right now. But I don't understand how they could just leave you here. Because they hate me. So you have... They've tried to bail violate me eight times. Over what? Everything. The day I was released, they tried to revoke my bell.

Because I stopped by a steakhouse on the way home. I was home an hour early, but I was supposed to go from the airport straight to my house. And I went from the airport to a steakhouse to my house. And even though I was home early, they tried to literally revoke my bail from that. Just the stupidest little things. But they got to at least let you work. I'm just so confused by it. They don't want to let me work. They don't want to let me get fresh air. They won't let me go to church.

Like all my rights are being violated. This feels like a weird Mr. Beast video right now. I feel like I'm in purgatory. Exactly. I, you know, Mr. Beast, it's like gets locked into this room for a hundred days and you get a million dollars at the end. I'm like, yeah, why can't I have one of those? Like I've been locked in the air for 2,300 days. we were making $5 million a day for $2,000. Think about this.

It's been shut down for $2,000. That's $20 billion. Who's got the money? What happened to all that equipment? So you think they're still making money with the equipment? Who knows? Who somebody is? If you got a data center January, $5 million a day and then you kidnap the guys,

this was a heist, dude. They can't find the assets. It's horrible. But why not find the right to turn? I don't think going pro se is a way to go on this, no? Well, it takes money, which I have none. And that's why I created freejobie.com, if you guys want to help me. I'm trying to get the story out.

They said, don't do interviews, don't do podcasts. So for five years, I was silent, didn't say a word. And then I just realized after five years, I'm like, they're all criminals. The lawyers are the criminals, too. So how do you afford this? I have generous friends. Yeah. Yeah, most people wouldn't get to live like this on house arrest.

I felt a lot of people become millionaires. So do you have... My goal was to create 100 new millionaires. And I was successful. I had over 100 people making over 100 grand a month or more. Do you have a sentencing date on the schedule now? Yes, April 16th. And what are they saying?

It's like the 30th sentencing date. And this is in Florida court. They're trying to give you anxiety. You know, you know, you go to the roulette table in Vegas or whatever, put $100 on red or black, whatever. The ball spin around. You don't know if it's going to hit red or black. you get that anxiety, the butterflies in your stomach feeling, right? And then it finally hits and you're like, okay, hit red or black.

But at least you know, you lost or you won. Now imagine, you know, $2 million on red, 20 years in jail on black, and the ball starts running and 10 minutes later, it's bouncing. 10 days later, bouncing, 10 months later, it's still bouncing. Three years later, four years later, five years later, you might get sentenced next month. Oh, we're going to change the same. sentencing again. Oh, you might go to trial next. I'll give them another continuance. 33 continuance is six years later. They got the ball still bouncing. They're just trying to,

they try to psychologically torture you. So you've had a lot of time to reflect. Looking on it, do you genuinely feel like you didn't do anything wrong? I did nothing wrong. I broke the laws that I'm subject to and I harm no people. What do you mean by subject to? Well, let me ask you a question. If there's a Chinese guy, that's selling a Bitcoin mining hardware computer to a Japanese guy, and they do the transaction in Bitcoin, where does the SEC say that they have jurisdiction over that transaction? It didn't touch the U.S. financial system in any way.

They don't. They're just trying to grab jurisdiction that they don't have. BitClub wasn't a company. It was a private membership association, of which I did not even own or start or run. If they had to fill out paperwork for the SEC, that's their role, not mine. I was a vendor selling them equipment, which is a computer equipment.

It's a product. No, I broke no laws. I harmed no people. I created no victims. They just came in for a billion dollar heist. And I'm sick and tired of sitting here. So that's why I'm down doing these podcasts. So I can get someone powerful enough to say,

Trump, drop the, you know, pardon this guy. What do you think this has done you mentally? It's shown me a lot of patience. Like, you got to be going mad in here, right? Well, you can ask my wife. I, you know, we do yoga together and we sing and dance. You know, I've come to know God intimately. I've forgiven.

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With the other person, so what I do is I forgive and I ground and I release. So it just flows out of me. So I become patient enough to where nothing kind of phases me anymore now, if that makes sense. Now, are they telling you that, you'll be able to get the money back once this is finally resolved. If you put that in writing every three months for five years, they're going to give me my money back and they never do. So I call the IRS and West Palm.

Where is it? I don't know. Call the marshals. Where is it? I don't know. Call the FBI. Where is it? Over in Tampa, call them.

Where is it? Oh, we ship four boxes to Colorado. I call Colorado. Oh, we only received one box. Well, where is it now? Oh, talk to New Jersey. It's crazy. Have they given you an actual seizure letter?

Yes. They're giving a seizure letter, which is different. Each one is different. If you guys read the docket. It's all there. It's a heist. They can't find the assets. Was all your money in Bitcoin or did you have other assets?

No, they took boxes of silver and gold coins. They even tried to set me up, man. So when I got, so I'm now on bail. I can't have guns, right? So I can only bail out to my parents' house. I can't go to my St.Kitt's house or my Mexico house. I can't go. I have to go live with my parents because they're going to be my guard, my third party

custodian. Yeah, their sign area. So I get to their house. I had a room in their house from high school. I didn't live in their house in their house in my house in my bedroom and I had just random stuff that I left. They raided their house and kicked in the doors and stole my parents stuff too. Then my parents still haven't gotten their assets back.

So long and the short, I got up to my bedroom and there's like 15 guns on my, in my bedroom on my bed. They took everything, but they left all the guns in my bed. And I'm like, dad, I can't have guns. What are all these guns doing? The cops left all the guns. I was like, what? I'm not allowed to have guns. See this piece of paper? It says I can't have guns. Like, get rid of these guns. So then about two, three days later, in the mail, the only asset that I've ever been given back was my passport. They sent it to me in the mail. So you have your passport right now.

Passport and a bunch of guns. So I call up the Fed guy, the probation guy, and I'm like, I thought I was a flight risk. And he's like, you are. I'm like, that's why I have an ankle bracelet, right? Yeah, you're a flight risk. I'm like, so I can't get a passport, right? No, you're not allowed to go get a passport. I'm like, you guys just sent me the passport in the mail.

He's like, what? I was like, why did you do that? He's like, I didn't do that. I was like, well, somebody sent me the passport in mail. I'm not going to fall for your setup. But the next thing you know that night some guys kick at the door and shoot me. He's trying to flee with a passport, a bunch of guns. I knew they were trying to set me up.

So I literally drove down to the courthouse, gave him the passport. I'm like, I don't have the passport. There are no guns on me. What does the probation office think about this? You're supervising. They think it's absolutely crazy. I've gone through 10 different probation officers. I got a monitor guy here, a drug.

I've drug tested twice a week for no apparent reason, just to harass me. That's standard with their... There's nothing to do with drugs. Yeah. Never failed a drug test. And that happened to me too when I was on pretrial. Constant drug tests. Well, it allows me to get out.

I actually ride my bike 36 miles down to the courthouse and back. So every Monday I get a little bit of exercise. What does your parents think about this? They totally think these guys are criminals. Dad was like, if you have to go to jail, I'll go to jail for you. You've got a family and everything. I always just sit around and read all the time anyways. So maybe we could ask the judge.

if I could substitute myself for you and I'll just go to jail in your place. I'm like, that's very kind of your dad. But no, nobody's going to jail. So, you know, they're very supportive. Let's just put it that way. With the sentencing hearing coming up in April, has the prosecution already submitted briefs? Well, they did something called a pre-sentence report.

Yeah, they did the PSI. That was years ago. Oh, okay. Yeah. And I'll eventually, we'll see what happens. If it's anything like the last six years, they're just, just going to constantly keep pushing it out and pushing it out because I mean at this point they can't go to trial they gotta give you time served at this point

you would think my max sentence was zero to five five years max I've already been sitting here for six yeah this is crazy man it's crazy I've never seen anything like it I've asked grok I'm like has this ever happened no has this ever happened no has this happened that's absurd Grouch literally said it's absurd what's going on. What's the first thing you think you'll do once you're prey? Jump in the ocean. I want to go swimming. I want to take my son swimming with me, you know?

So, you know, and then I don't know, man. It's just... So what do you think is a silver lining and all of this? Well, spiritual, spiritualize, there was a guy in the Bible named Job, the oldest book of Bible. I'm named after this guy. Jobedaya is my full name. So Job and Obadiah.

Obadi was a prophet. Job was this billionaire. God and the devil had this battle over this guy, whether he would, you know, if he lost all of his family and all of his houses and all of his cars and all of his cattle and his family, would he curse God? And so Job never cursed God. He lost everything. And it's funny because I have a house in Mexico, 30,000 square feet, 13 bedrooms, beautiful house. I'm sitting in jail. It gets hit by an earthquake. $80,000 to fix the windows, right? Get the windows. all fixed, house is nice again, a month later, hit by a hurricane. Destroyed. I can show your picture. I'm like, what the heck is going on?

I'm like, literally, if you Google my name, Joe B, it means persecuted. That's what it means. So, I'm living the life of Joe, and I'm getting patience. But also Paul, because he was bounced around from jail to jail to jail to jail. And Daniel in the Lion's Dead, and Jonah and the whale, and

David versus Goliath and Shadrachman and Vennigua. And, you know, I had a betrayal moment, like the Judas the scary betrayal moment. I read up the law, you know, Moses, the law bearer, you know, let my people go to Pharaoh, you know, I feel I got a little Moses in me. But the best story, which is the story I hope I get at the end, is the Joseph story, where he was thrown in jail for 10 years over BS.

Comes out of jail. Next thing you know, he's number two next to Pharaoh. So wouldn't that be fun, you know? Go through all this harassment and all this stuff and Trump hears about this. He's like, that's ridiculous. I mean, if you think about it, Bitfury, the chip manufacturer company that I own a slice of, spun off two companies. One's called Cipher and one is called HUD-Aid.

Both of those are publicly traded billion-dollar companies. They're unicorns. HUD-8 partnered with Eric Trump and American Bitcoin. The whole data center, Eric Trump, the big boss's son, is filled with HUD-8 equipment. From a company I was the seed investor of, you know, they're going out with making billions of dollars doing exactly what I was doing. and here I am still on house arrest. So I'm hoping that this maybe gets to them and they're like, this is ridiculous. We got to let this guy go. And I'm happy to help make America great again.

You know, that's what I've been doing for 25, 30 years anyways, you know. So that's kind of where I stand. And until then, I'm just peacefully and patiently waiting. Well, it'll definitely be interesting to see how this plays out. And, you know, I wish you the best and seeing the outcome of this. Well, thanks for letting me share the story. And if you go to freejobie.com, you can watch the 20-minute video on it and just share it with some people. Because the more people that hear this story and the ridiculousness of it, it's got to end sometimes. Yeah. Well, thanks for inviting us here to your home today.

And I wish you the best been. Thanks, bro.