I offered $10,000 of FREE BITCOIN to two different people. Do you think they took it?

00:01 I offered two different people $10,000 00:03 of free Bitcoin. One of them stopped 00:06 responding to me and the other never 00:08 responded in the first place. Here is 00:09 what we can learn about Bitcoin from 00:11 that experience. Okay, so it all started 00:14 when I sold Bombgar Corporation in 2014. 00:16 I had this idea. Uh but I ultimately 00:18 never executed on this idea because uh 00:21 of just anyway I'll walk through my 00:23 logic. I never executed on it because I 00:25 never felt financially secure with fiat 00:28 currency. Even though I had stocks and I 00:30 had bonds and I had US dollar cash and I 00:32 had, you know, strategic reserves, I had 00:35 all this different stuff. Um, I never 00:37 felt financially secure in the old fiat 00:41 financial system. I just felt like the 00:44 money could disappear and if it I mean 00:46 it just it felt it felt like something 00:47 wasn't right. So, fast forward 00:51 ultimately from 2014 to uh 2024 and 00:56 Bitcoin in late 2024 crossed $100,000 00:59 for the first time. And at that point, I 01:02 revisited this idea I had had 10 years 01:04 before that I was like, you know, I 01:06 actually do feel financial freedom with 01:08 Bitcoin. I feel financially secure with 01:11 Bitcoin uh in a way I never did with 01:13 fiat currency. And I was like, I'm going 01:15 to revisit this idea. Okay, so here was 01:17 the idea. The idea I was like, you know, 01:19 look, you know, some people think, you 01:21 know, humanity, you know, is lost and we 01:24 have all these issues and, you know, in 01:26 many ways we do, but there are times 01:28 when people do nice things for other 01:31 people for which there is no in no 01:33 incentive whatsoever for what they did. 01:36 And so I thought I had this idea. I was 01:38 like, "Okay, I'm going to think back 01:40 through, first of all, there's thousands 01:41 of people that have done nice things for 01:43 me, mentored me, coached me, helped me 01:45 on my career, helped me in my personal 01:47 life." I mean, just a million things. I 01:49 have I have thousands of pe many 01:51 thousands of people to be thankful for. 01:53 But for this specifically, I was like, 01:54 "Okay, I'm going to think up a couple of 01:56 scenarios of people I can remember in my 01:59 life that did something nice for me, uh, 02:01 went out of their way to do something 02:03 nice for me that met a bunch of 02:04 criteria." And here was some of the 02:06 criteria. There was way more criteria, 02:07 but here's just some of the criteria. 02:09 So, one, there had to be nothing in it 02:11 for them whatsoever. Um, meaning no 02:14 incentive whatsoever to do something 02:16 nice for me. Uh, some of the criteria 02:18 meant that they could not work for a 02:19 church or a school or any organization 02:22 where being nice to people was part of 02:25 the job or being nice to me was part of 02:27 the job. Um, they had to be older than I 02:29 was. Uh, it had to the the circumstances 02:33 had to take place before I started 02:34 Bombgar Corporation. Basically, when I 02:37 was a nobody, they were older than I 02:39 was. There was no incentive for what 02:40 whatsoever for them to be nice to me. 02:42 Uh, I didn't work for them. They didn't 02:44 work for me. They didn't work for a 02:46 church. They didn't work for a school. 02:47 They were not a family member. They were 02:49 not a family friend. Uh, they knew me, 02:51 but had no reason to ever believe that 02:53 they would know me in the future. And 02:55 where they had no reason to believe 02:56 whatsoever that they would ever, you 02:59 know, that I would ever be in a position 03:00 to be able to be beneficial in any way 03:02 to them. So, I had a bunch more 03:04 criteria, but it it resulted in 03:05 narrowing, you know, many thousands of 03:07 people down to two. There was two 03:09 specific scenarios I could think of in 03:12 my life where I'm like, okay, this is 03:14 this is a time somebody went out of 03:16 their way to do something nice for me 03:18 with no incentive whatsoever. I can't 03:20 think of an incentive. I've run the 03:22 scenarios through every conceivable 03:23 filter to make sure that there's no 03:25 possible scenario that they would have 03:27 benefited from this or whatever. And it 03:29 was really sort of the the thought 03:30 process is if you could zoom in on a 03:32 point in humanity and make a case that 03:36 many times humans are good deep down 03:38 inside. Now we're fallen, we're sinful 03:40 creatures, you know, original sin, uh 03:42 total depravity, all of that. But there 03:45 are times you can zoom in and people do 03:47 nice things for other people when 03:49 there's no incentive. Now again, I'm not 03:50 talking about like a customer 03:52 relationship. Yeah, you walk in, you 03:53 order a coffee in a coffee shop, they're 03:55 nice to you, but you're a customer. Like 03:56 I mean I you walk down the street, 03:58 people open doors for each other. I'm 03:59 not talking about that. I'm talking 04:00 about somebody who really went out of 04:01 their way to do something nice for me 04:03 with no incentive whatsoever. Okay. So I 04:05 was able to think of two scenarios that 04:07 that went that passed the sort of the 04:10 filter of a gazillion things that had to 04:13 pass to eliminate any possibility that 04:15 there was anything in it for them or 04:17 that they were doing, you know, going 04:19 out of their way to do something nice 04:20 for me. Uh anyway, it it eliminated 04:23 again it eliminated family friends. It 04:24 eliminated acquaintances. that 04:26 eliminated anybody that was likely to 04:28 still know me a year or two later. Um 04:31 because again, if you know somebody or 04:32 if you expect to still still know them 04:34 or run in the same circles, you know, 04:36 presumably there's some incentive for 04:37 people to be nice to each other, I 04:38 guess. But anyway, I thought of two 04:40 scenarios. So, I went and and again, it 04:42 had to be somebody that I hadn't seen 04:44 for at least 25 or 30 years. It had to 04:46 be somebody for multiple decades that I 04:48 had had no communication with 04:50 whatsoever. Uh that didn't live in 04:52 Mississippi anymore. Uh there was a 04:55 bunch of criteria. There was like a 04:56 gazillion criteria. But anyway, I 04:58 thought of two situations. Um and so I I 05:01 reached out to these individuals. One of 05:03 them I was able to find a cell phone 05:04 number online uh that I verified was 05:07 accurate. And the other I found uh an 05:10 active Facebook profile that they were 05:11 clearly checking regularly and updating. 05:14 So in the first case with the cell phone 05:15 number, um initially I texted them and 05:18 called and left a voicemail just to 05:19 verify that it was still them. Um they 05:22 responded. They were like, "Oh yeah, I 05:23 remember you." Like that was like 30 05:25 years ago. Like you know how you how are 05:27 you doing? And all that sort of stuff. 05:29 And uh you know, so it was great. And it 05:31 was, you know, and I was like, "Oh, 05:32 yeah." And I was like, "Okay, well, I'm 05:33 going to send you I'm going to send you 05:35 a video, you know, with a with some with 05:37 an idea, you know, I wanted to run by 05:39 you." Uh so anyway, I recorded them a 05:41 short video that explained, you know, 05:43 what I was doing. And I was offering 05:44 them $10,000 of free Bitcoin. And as a 05:47 thank you for just being a nice human 05:49 being. I don't know if they're nice 05:51 human beings in general, but they were 05:53 then at that time. Um, but hadn't seen 05:56 them in 30 years, so I have no idea now. 05:58 But I was like, this is what I'm doing. 05:60 And in the video, just so they knew it 06:01 was not a scam and it was not AI 06:04 generated, I described the situ 06:06 situation and how we knew each other and 06:07 this situation and all of that. And I I 06:10 included enough detail that there's no 06:12 possible way anyone other than me and 06:14 them would have remembered that time or 06:17 that incident or and I included uh in 06:19 the video I included u u landmarks so 06:23 that it's not AI generated because I'm 06:25 like here's where I am. You can see you 06:27 know where I am behind me like this is 06:29 etc etc. So, just as authentic as you 06:32 could possibly be. Zero chance that they 06:34 would think it was an AI fake or a deep 06:37 fake or, you know, I don't a scam. Like, 06:40 I just eliminated all those 06:42 possibilities. And I even told them, I 06:43 was like, I'll send you $10,000 of free 06:45 Bitcoin. If you're not into Bitcoin, 06:46 that's fine. Find someone you trust. 06:49 Tell them to help you set up either a 06:50 Coinbase account or a River account, but 06:52 get someone you trust. Not me. I'm not 06:54 telling you to do anything. I'm saying, 06:56 "Go to someone you trust, and all I need 06:58 is your Bitcoin uh public address, so I 06:60 can just send you. It's like an email 07:01 address. I can just send it to you." And 07:03 I was like, "The person you trust will 07:04 tell you that there's nothing scammy 07:06 about giving someone your Bitcoin public 07:08 address. That's just how you receive 07:09 Bitcoin. It's not how you send it. It's 07:11 just how you receive it. Send me that 07:12 and I'll send you $10,000 of free 07:14 Bitcoin." So, as soon as I uploaded that 07:16 video, uh the person stopped responding 07:18 to me. Like, we had we had been having a 07:19 whole text conversation. Uh but as soon 07:21 as I uploaded the video, they stopped 07:23 responding. I followed up. I called. 07:25 They left a voicemail. I sent a few over 07:27 the next month or two, I sent sent a few 07:29 follow-up text messages and nothing. 07:31 Like they just completely went dark. Um, 07:34 and then the other individual who was 07:36 very active on Facebook in general. Uh, 07:38 never responded. I mean, my messages 07:40 were going through on Facebook. Um, they 07:43 appeared to be getting them. They were 07:45 active on Facebook and but for whatever 07:47 reason, they never engaged at all. They 07:48 just never responded at all. And after a 07:51 couple uh Facebook messages, I uploaded 07:53 a video unique to them. Um uh so I did 07:56 two separate videos for the two separate 07:58 people and uh uploaded that and uh and 08:02 posted it and you know they again no no 08:04 response. Um so ultimately I I I I was 08:07 not planning to tell like my kids about 08:09 this or I was certainly not planning to 08:11 do a video about it because I I expected 08:12 to be successful if I had successfully 08:15 given away $10,000 of free Bitcoin to 08:17 two different people or even one of 08:19 them. I would not be doing a video about 08:21 it. That would be super tacky. So, the 08:23 only reason I'm doing a video about it 08:24 is because I failed. Like, I failed to 08:26 give them free Bitcoin because they went 08:28 dark on me. So, so I I brought this up. 08:31 I decided after this had failed, I had 08:33 failed to successfully give away free 08:34 Bitcoin to these two individuals, even 08:36 with a recorded video, even with an 08:38 explanation, all this sort of stuff. I 08:40 brought it up at a family dinner and 08:42 asked my kids what they thought. And it 08:43 was interesting because the boys and the 08:45 girls were completely split. So, my wife 08:47 and my daughter were like, "Doesn't 08:49 surprise me. That's just super weird." 08:51 Like, giving people $10,000 of free 08:53 Bitcoin, super weird, you know, not 08:56 surprised they, you know, they went dark 08:57 on you. You should have just written 08:59 them a nice handwritten thank you. Um, 09:01 and I was like, "Yeah, but a handwritten 09:02 thank you that didn't cost anything." 09:04 Like, what? That's like 20, you know, 09:07 five minutes of my time. Like, no. I was 09:09 like, I thought it would be way more 09:11 meaningful to give $10,000 of free 09:14 Bitcoin. That's what I thought. And I 09:16 mean that's a lot of Bitcoin for me. I 09:18 don't have a ton of Bitcoin. Um because 09:20 I spent a ton of my financial assets 09:22 trying to make the world a better way in 09:24 a million different ways. So I can 09:25 afford to give away $10,000 of free 09:27 Bitcoin, but that's like a meaningful 09:28 amount of Bitcoin. I don't have an 09:30 unlimited amount of Bitcoin. And I was 09:32 like, so no, I I thought giving Bitcoin 09:34 away in an increment that was like 09:37 really meaningful. Like that's a lot of 09:38 Bitcoin for me. I thought that would be 09:41 way more meaningful than writing a 09:42 handwritten note. My sons all agreed 09:44 with me. The boys are all like, "Dad, of 09:47 course, of course you would want $10,000 09:50 of free Bitcoin instead of a handwritten 09:52 note. Of course, like, of course it 09:54 makes all the sense in the world that 09:55 you did what you did." But anyway, my 09:57 wife and my daughter were like, "You 09:58 should have written a hand handwritten 09:59 note. They, you know, that would have 10:01 been better." Um, you know, it's not 10:03 about the Bitcoin or the cost. They're 10:04 just like, "That's what, you know, 10:06 humans are supposed to do when they're 10:07 thankful for something." And I was like, 10:09 "Yeah, but that that seemed lame." like 10:11 I wanted to do something that was really 10:13 meaningful for what this person did that 10:15 was meaningful 30 years ago. Uh but 10:17 anyway, so the boys all thought that 10:19 giving people free Bitcoin was way more 10:21 meaningful than a handwritten note. And 10:23 the girls uh which is my wife and 10:24 daughter uh all thought that a 10:26 handwritten note was a lot more 10:28 meaningful than somebody randomly 10:29 showing up offering someone free 10:30 Bitcoin. So what we what can we learn 10:33 from this entire experience? One, I 10:34 think in both cases they saw the offer 10:37 of free Bitcoin and thought uh it's a 10:39 scam. like why do I want Bitcoin? I just 10:41 don't want to figure it out what it is. 10:43 You know, there's probably something 10:44 weird or wonky. And even though I had, 10:47 you know, put a a video with a a 10:48 detailed description of what I was doing 10:50 and and what to do. One second. 10:58 Sorry, got some ice there. Um, 11:01 but I think I think the response was 11:04 this is a this this sounds scammy and I 11:06 just don't want to be part of it. I'm 11:07 just going to pass. They never told me 11:09 they were passing. They just went dark. 11:12 Um, so I think I I think what that tells 11:15 us is we are very early in the adoption 11:17 of Bitcoin. Um, most people if you 11:20 reached out and offered $10,000 US, they 11:22 would say yes, right? Because the US 11:24 dollar is a known thing. Um, but I'm not 11:26 offering people US dollars. The moment I 11:28 transfer it to them, they start losing 11:30 value. Like the reason I didn't do this 11:32 in 2014 is I was like, it doesn't feel 11:34 right. like I don't feel secure in my 11:37 own financial freedom sitting on US 11:39 dollars. And if I give $10,000 away to 11:43 somebody, they're just going to start 11:44 deteriorating the moment I give it to 11:46 someone else, which is why I didn't do 11:47 it 10 years ago. Uh now, if I had been 11:50 into Bitcoin in 2014, I would have. But 11:52 um but I didn't. And I don't know, back 11:54 in 2014, it would have probably been 11:55 like 10 Bitcoin or something instead of 11:58 like 0.1 Bitcoin. Um but anyway, so I 12:01 think I think what we can learn is 12:03 Bitcoin offers a sense of financial 12:05 freedom and real financial freedom in a 12:07 way that fiat currency in the current 12:09 financial system doesn't. Um it did for 12:11 me again because I didn't do this in 12:13 2014 when I could have. Um I mean 12:16 technically in fiat terms my net worth 12:18 was higher back then. I had just sold 12:20 the company. I had not spent a ton of 12:22 money on politics and public policy and 12:25 numerous efforts to make the world a 12:26 better place and all that sort of stuff. 12:27 So just from a strict Dave Ramsey 12:30 perspective, I could afford to do this 12:31 more in 2014 than I can now because I've 12:34 spent a huge amount of my financial 12:35 resources trying to make the world a 12:37 better place in a million different 12:38 ways. Um, but I didn't do it back in 12:40 2014 because again, it just it I didn't 12:43 feel financially secure in the fiat 12:45 economy world. Um, and I felt like, 12:48 okay, you give the money away and it 12:50 just starts losing value as soon as you 12:52 give it. like it just didn't have the 12:53 same effect versus now it feels like 12:55 yeah if I give somebody Bitcoin it costs 12:57 me something but I feel financially 12:59 secure in the Bitcoin I still have and 13:02 I'm giving the them a gift that keeps on 13:04 giving instead of a gift that starts 13:06 deteriorating like rotten bananas the 13:08 moment they receive it and starts 13:10 immediately losing value. Uh so I think 13:12 that's the first thing we can learn is 13:13 that bitcoin gives a sense of financial 13:15 freedom uh when you own it yourself and 13:18 it gives a sense of gift that keeps on 13:21 giving when you give it away or when you 13:23 spend it or when you use it to make your 13:25 life better in some way. Uh second thing 13:28 I think we are early that's what we can 13:30 learn. We are early in this journey of 13:32 Bitcoin. We are so early that you can 13:34 offer people $10,000 of free Bitcoin and 13:37 they just stop responding because 13:38 they're like me I don't want to 13:40 participate in that. whatever it is 13:42 because that's how early we are that 13:43 people don't think it's a thing or I I 13:48 don't know I like I you know if Elon 13:51 Musk who's way more successful than I 13:52 will ever be um I mean if if somebody 13:55 that's wealthier than I am randomly 13:57 reached out to me and offered me $10,000 13:60 of anything I would say yeah I'll take 14:02 it like thanks like that's great why why 14:05 not um but I think I think it's early I 14:08 think people don't take Bitcoin 14:10 seriously and therefore you can offer 14:12 $10,000 of free Bitcoin and yeah, they 14:14 just yeah, you know, I guess they just 14:17 pass. Um, also I think people a third 14:20 thing we can learn in addition to 14:22 financial security, financial freedom, 14:23 the gift that keeps on giving and u and 14:26 the fact that we're just early. I think 14:28 another way that we are we know that 14:30 we're early is people don't realize you 14:32 can convert Bitcoin into anything. You 14:35 can convert Bitcoin into any currency 14:37 anywhere in the world. If you want to 14:38 convert $10,000 of free Bitcoin into US 14:41 dollars, you can. It's like 14:43 instantaneous on River or Coinbase or 14:45 anywhere else. Um, you know, Kraken, on 14:48 Gemini, I mean, anywhere. Any of the 14:50 major services, all you know, government 14:54 sanctioned and approved in the United 14:56 States. They're not scams. They're not 14:57 FTX offshore stupidity from 2022. There 15:01 are numerous legit places to convert 15:03 $10,000 of free Bitcoin to any currency 15:05 in the world. You can convert it to the 15:07 Thai bot. You can convert it to euros. 15:09 You can convert it to the Japanese yen, 15:10 the Chinese wan. You can do any of that 15:12 stuff like any currency in the world. So 15:14 I think we are so early that people 15:16 don't realize this is money. And if you 15:18 want to convert it into a different kind 15:20 of money, you can do that anywhere in 15:22 the world at any time. And anywhere in 15:24 the world, people will sell you stuff 15:25 for Bitcoin. Anywhere in the world that 15:27 you can find somebody that will sell you 15:29 a car for Bitcoin, that will sell you a 15:31 meal for Bitcoin. It's money. And I 15:34 think we're just so early that people 15:36 don't understand that. And you can offer 15:38 them $10,000 of free Bitcoin and you 15:40 know they would, you know, they would 15:42 pass. And I've wondered this before as 15:44 well. I've wondered uh I haven't I have 15:48 never done this, but I've considered it 15:49 before. Um so, you know, if you were 15:53 like tipping at a restaurant, and I've 15:54 never done this because I don't want to 15:56 make like waiters and waitresses like 15:58 uncomfortable. Um, but I have wondered 16:00 before, you know, if you're tipping at a 16:02 restaurant and the waiter or waitress 16:04 and you said, "Hey, you did a really 16:05 good job. Would you like $100, this $100 16:09 bill as a tip, or would you like one 1% 16:13 of one bitcoin?" Now, 1% of one bitcoin 16:16 is more than $1,000. But honestly, I 16:19 think the vast majority of waiters and 16:21 waitresses in the world would say 16:23 between 1% of a bitcoin and $100. 16:27 I'll take the $100. People just don't 16:29 realize, we're so early in this journey 16:31 of Bitcoin that people don't realize 16:33 it's real money. And I think most people 16:36 in the world, if you offered them 1% of 16:38 one Bitcoin or if you offered them $100, 16:41 unless they pulled out a calculator and 16:43 started really trying to figure it out, 16:44 most people don't know what the price 16:45 of, they don't know Bitcoin's $120,000 a 16:48 coin right now. They don't know that, 16:51 you know, 1% of one Bitcoin is $1,200. 16:55 Like, nobody knows that. or not nobody 16:57 but a small percentage of the world. So 16:59 most of the world they think Bitcoin is 17:01 something they can ignore. They or they 17:02 think it's a scam or they think they 17:04 just don't want to deal with it. And I 17:05 think most of the world would take a 17:07 $100 bill instead of 1% of one bitcoin 17:09 because they just don't know what 1% of 17:11 one bitcoin is. They don't know what 17:12 it's worth. They don't know that they 17:13 can convert it to any currency in the 17:15 world. They don't know that. That's how 17:17 early we are in this journey of Bitcoin. 17:20 So last up, uh you're probably somebody 17:24 eventually is going to ask me. They're 17:25 going to say, "Well, hey, if you didn't 17:26 give $10,000 of free Bitcoin to so- and 17:28 so, can I have it?" Uh, the answer is 17:30 no. The uh that offer expired and I gave 17:33 away that Bitcoin $100 at a time in 17:35 other ways. So, after enough months had 17:38 gone by that I was certain that those 17:41 two individuals would never respond, 17:43 never engage, I instead gave away that 17:46 Bitcoin $100 at a time. Earlier this 17:49 year, I did a matching thing where 17:51 Bitcoin was 117,000 a coin where I said, 17:53 "Look, if you buy 117,000 or $17 of 17:57 Bitcoin, I will give you 0.001 Bitcoin, 17:60 which was worth $117." So, I did 18:03 basically a matching thing up to $117. 18:06 So, I gave away some of that Bitcoin 18:07 that way and the rest of it I gave away 18:10 $100 at a time to basically anybody who 18:12 doesn't already own Bitcoin. So, if 18:14 you're wondering, can you have that 18:16 $10,000 of Bitcoin or in the case of two 18:19 people, $20,000 total of Bitcoin? No. 18:22 That Bitcoin's already been given away. 18:23 And I continue to give away $100 of free 18:26 Bitcoin to basically anybody who asks. 18:28 If somebody messages me and it's a legit 18:30 Facebook account, it's not like some 18:32 hacked or scammed, you know, stupid 18:34 account. If it doesn't look fake, I send 18:36 them a link to $100 of free Bitcoin uh 18:39 on River. And I've done that for, you 18:41 know, a long time now. And I continue to 18:43 do that. So even though that exact 18:45 Bitcoin is no longer available because 18:47 it's been given away, I continue to give 18:48 away free Bitcoin to anybody uh who 18:51 asks. And again, you can message me on 18:53 Facebook on Facebook Messenger. That way 18:55 I can check and make sure the profile is 18:57 real. Uh now and then I get these just 18:59 scammy messages from, you know, newly 19:01 created profiles who only have one 19:02 friend and the picture is a picture of 19:04 a, you know, a sunrise. And it's like, 19:07 that's not a real profile. I'm sorry. 19:08 you're not a real person. So, um, but 19:11 any legit real person I'll give away 19:13 $100 of free Bitcoin to. Um, and to 19:16 these individuals, it was $10,000 of 19:18 free bit Bitcoin each because I just had 19:20 the idea and I just wanted to do it and 19:22 I'd had the idea a long time ago and I 19:24 wanted to do it and but one went dark on 19:27 me, the other never responded. So, I 19:29 just gave away the Bitcoin a little at a 19:31 time to a bunch of other people, 19:33 hundreds of other people. And uh, and 19:35 that is the story. So, I'll recap even 19:38 though I know my videos are way too long 19:40 and I know the recap is like super 19:41 duplicative, but to recap, what can we 19:44 learn? One, Bitcoin can offer financial 19:46 freedom in a way that fiat can't um both 19:49 to an individual as well as secondly as 19:52 the gift that keeps on giving, which 19:53 incentivizes people to share and to buy 19:55 things and to gift Bitcoin to each other 19:58 because it's a better money. Uh third, 20:01 um most people dismiss Bitcoin. you 20:03 offer them $10,000 of Bitcoin and they, 20:05 you know, in this case didn't even 20:07 respond. Um, fourth, uh, that Bitcoin we 20:11 are so early that people don't know you 20:14 can convert it to any other currency in 20:15 the anywhere in the world. You can buy 20:17 anything with it. It is money and it is 20:19 valuable. And probably fifth, I think, I 20:22 haven't tried it, but fifth, I think 20:24 most people, if you put them on the spot 20:26 in the minute and said, "Hey, do you 20:29 want one percent of one Bitcoin or a 20:30 $100 bill?" Most people would take a 20:32 $100 bill because they just don't get 20:34 Bitcoin enough to realize that, you 20:36 know, 1% of one Bitcoin is more than 10 20:40 times is 12 times as much as a $100 20:42 bill. So, there's a lot to learn there. 20:44 What how is this actionable? One, if you 20:47 don't have any Bitcoin, I'll give you 20:49 $100 of free Bitcoin. So, that's 20:50 actionable. Nobody who ever watches my 20:52 videos should have zero Bitcoin because 20:54 literally I will give it away $100 at a 20:56 time for free. And all you got to do is 20:58 message me from a legit Facebook account 21:01 with the message river $100. River ri I 21:05 v space dollar sign 10000 and I will 21:08 send you $100 of free Bitcoin on River. 21:11 Um again as long as you're like a legit 21:12 account and it's not your account does 21:14 not look scammed or hacked or you know 21:17 fake or whatever. Um so that's the 21:19 action item. The action item is if you 21:21 don't own any Bitcoin solve that. Um, 21:24 the second action item is buy as much 21:26 Bitcoin as you can and sit on it for as 21:28 long as conceivably possible because 21:30 Bitcoin can give you financial freedom 21:32 the same way it has given me financial 21:34 freedom. Bitcoin can make you generous 21:37 in the long term in a way that fiat 21:39 currency won't because fiat currency 21:42 encourages you to always feel like the 21:45 sand is running through your fingers. 21:47 And if you're holding assets where you 21:49 feel like the sand is running through 21:51 your fingers, it's hard to be gift. It's 21:54 hard to be generous with assets you feel 21:55 like you're in the process of losing. 21:57 And with fiat currency, which is 21:59 government madeup currency, government 22:01 or currency by fiat, government dictate, 22:04 which is what the word fiat means, if 22:06 that is the currency you're using and 22:07 that is how you're storing your wealth, 22:09 the the sand is running through your 22:10 fingers. And it's hard to be generous 22:12 when you feel like if I give away this, 22:14 will I still have enough? And that's 22:17 what fiat currency does for you. It's 22:18 toxic. Um, Bitcoin is better money that 22:21 makes people more wealthy and more 22:24 generous. And it's pretty amazing that a 22:26 currency, a good currency, a stable, you 22:29 know, stable as in it goes up and down 22:30 on its way up, meaning the value of that 22:33 currency long-term is up, not down. Um, 22:36 the purchasing power is grows over time, 22:39 even though it's volatile in the near 22:40 term. It's amazing what that can do to 22:43 the human psyche and it's what humanity 22:46 has needed for a very long time and uh 22:48 and Bitcoin is that and it's that it has 22:50 been transformative for me and it can be 22:52 transformative for you and I would not 22:54 record this video if I didn't think it 22:55 would help somebody. Um obviously if I 22:57 had been successful giving away that 22:59 Bitcoin, I would not have recorded a 23:01 video cuz that would have been tacky. 23:02 But I thought what else can I record a 23:05 video on? What else can I tell people 23:06 about to encourage them to buy Bitcoin 23:09 and to pursue real financial freedom um 23:12 and wealth with a currency that nobody 23:14 can make more of out of thin air? And I 23:16 was like, I'll just do this video. It's 23:18 been long enough. It's been 9 months or 23:21 whatever it was. It's been almost a year 23:22 since Bitcoin crossed $100,000. I was 23:24 like, all right, we're probably past the 23:26 statute of limitation. Plus, I was 23:28 unsuccessful in giving that free Bitcoin 23:30 to those two individuals. So, here's a 23:32 video about it with the hope that it 23:34 will impact somebody and that they will 23:37 either take me up on my offer for $100, 23:39 not $10,000, but $100 of free Bitcoin to 23:43 anyone um and that they will pursue 23:45 financial freedom themselves by 23:47 accumulating as much Bitcoin as they can 23:49 and in the long term as that Bitcoin 23:51 appreciates in value, generously giving 23:53 with it as I do to my church, Christian 23:56 missionaries, and and numerous other 23:58 things. So, uh, have a great day. Let me 24:02 know if I can help you. I really want to 24:03 help you. I've been screaming from the 24:05 rooftops about Bitcoin for many years 24:07 now. I just want people to listen. I 24:09 want them to benefit the way I have. And 24:11 I hope you do. And I'm here for anything 24:12 you need as your Sherpa on that journey. 24:15 Have a good one.