How To Spread Bitcoin Adoption To Everyone

Michael Saylor and Aleks Svetski proceed their long-form speech astir the implications of Bitcoin and however to dispersed adoption to everyone.

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[00:00:13] Aleks Svetski: The level of craziness and the level of involution and the level of benignant of like. What Alan Watts would telephone “do-goodery.” right. You've got radical who, whether their intent is bully oregon bad, irrespective their process is simply a small spot ridiculous.

And ESG is 1 of these examples, right? It's trying to unreal your mode into prosperity. It's, you know, let's let's wrapper corporations and institutions and companies, and astatine immoderate constituent individuals into different acceptable of arbitrary rules for the stated intent of redeeming vigor oregon doing societal good, or, you know, bully governance oregon whatever, but you really extremity up doing the opposite.

So, you know, successful galore ways, Bitcoin ends up successful the firing enactment of that, whether we similar it oregon not, and we tin beryllium arsenic apolitical arsenic we privation astir it. But, you know, there, determination comes a constituent wherever you request to benignant of gully the enactment and accidental no, you know, this is. We're jumping disconnected a cliff here.

This behaviour is ridiculous. You know, Sri Lanka, I saw Marty bent, posted thing astir Sri Lanka today, who was 1 of the archetypal countries, you know, messing astir with this ESG stuff. And, you know, they're having a illness of nutrient and vigor and each this benignant of stuff. So I consciousness similar it's tricky.

It's it sounds bully and principled to beryllium apolitical, but astatine the aforesaid time, it's astir intolerable to benignant of enactment apolitical erstwhile everything is becoming political.

[00:01:41] Michael Saylor: So I, I deliberation that you person to prosecute successful the governmental dialogue. That's true. But you besides could bash it successful a constructive way, oregon you tin bash it successful a destructive way. For illustration the ESG communicative is conscionable utilized by a rival to undermine different competitor. So the lipid companies utilized ESG to get radical to unopen down atomic powerfulness plants.

Okay. So if you are, if you're going to beryllium effective, you request to place who your existent force is. Your enemy, the force of the atomic powerfulness plants. Weren't radical that wanted to support the environment. The force of the atomic powerfulness works was lobbyists paid disconnected by lipid companies to unopen them down. And if you really put, if you really enactment that beforehand and center, you'd astir apt beryllium overmuch much effective.

[00:02:33] Aleks Svetski: actually.

[00:02:34] Michael Saylor: When online gambling was unopen down, it was Indian reservations funneling wealth done fundamentalist Christian organizations to a lobbyist successful DC that convinced politicians that gambling online is an abomination of the eyes of God. Okay. So if you're supporting online poker, you could state a warfare on, you know, similar each of the evangelical Christians and 25 cardinal Southern Baptists, but they weren't truly your enemy.

You're your enemy. Your force was a mates of selling radical moving for a casino connected a preservation that actually, you know, staged a gorilla selling effort. And if you were to spell to each church, And protestation against the churches and say, you know, the churches are our force and Christianity is the enemy.

You would've picked a combat that you can't win. That was unnecessary. The ESG objections to Bitcoin don't travel from environmentalists. They don't travel from organization investors. Are, they travel from alt corners. It's the impervious of involvement networks that wage the lobbyist to lobby the politicians.

They constitute the op-ed pieces. They works the stories. They wage for world research. All of this worldly is sponsored by the different crypto competitors. And truthful if you were to say, ohio the Europeans are anserine oregon the person is stupid, oregon the environmentalist oregon force oregon large companies are enemy, oregon the organization investors are enemy.

You would fundamentally beryllium chasing a reddish herring, right? You effectively, what's going connected is your force wants you to spell to warfare with idiosyncratic a 100 times arsenic large arsenic you, and they're laughing their ass disconnected and you're taking the bait, right? It's similar I spell into a town, you know, and determination are 2 gangs and they each person a 100 warriors.

So I termination 1 of the warriors from 1 pack and I pin it connected the different pack and I termination 1 of the guys from the different pack and I pin it connected the archetypal pack and I permission municipality and I hold for the 2 gangs to termination each other. And past I travel backmost and instrumentality over. You see, arsenic determination was, this was each conscionable a mendacious flag, cognition of sorts.

So yeah, that doesn't mean you can't get engaged with politics, but you astir apt should support successful mind, you know, who you're truly competing against generally. It's competitors are weaponizing the governmental process to decision their arrival. Right. And if I'm gonna bash it right, I person to wrapper myself successful the mantle of being environmentally friendly, oregon I person to beryllium doing it for the public.

Good, right? Like my competitor, immoderate is atrocious for the environment. And past I get immoderate person to bash that, and the politicians are gonna privation immoderate motivation justification, but yet if you travel the money, you'll find that, that they're conscionable supporting different competitor. And it works some ways.

Right? Ironically the lipid companies buried the atomic powerfulness companies utilizing the governmental process. And past aboriginal connected you know, the star and the upwind radical hide the lipid companies utilizing the aforesaid process. They're conscionable weaponizing the governmental process. So you can't not engage, but. You tin beryllium a small spot much thoughtful astir however you engage

Figure retired who truly is, who is driving the narrative. And mostly astir of these organizations they're influenced by their donors to bash immoderate is right. You know, it's interesting. If you look astatine the American diabetes relation who gives wealth to the American diabetes relation successful bid to combat diabetes

[00:06:15] Aleks Svetski: it's not similar Coke and Pepsi and each those guys oregon the candy companies.

[00:06:20] Michael Saylor: and and erstwhile you and erstwhile you work the ma head, it says thing similar we don't truly cognize what causes diabetes. Okay. But we bash cognize what causes diabetes but the enactment doesn't wanna accidental what causes diabetes, because. To a definite degree, their sponsors person have a vested involvement successful nary 1 deciding what causes diabetes.

It's better. If it's conscionable an unfortunate illness that we tin dainty with costly drugs.

[00:06:48] Aleks Svetski: Yeah, but see, astatine what constituent does 1 gully the enactment and halt playing wrong a mendacious Overton window, right? Because that's what each of these things look to be. I conjecture what I'm proceeding from you is that the strategy is, you know, U usage their Overton model and usage their arguments. , you know, benignant of similar a, astir similar an Aikido, you know, flip the vigor backmost their mode versus, you know, the different strategy being much confrontational and conscionable saying no, that I volition not run successful that Overton window.

This is true. And this makes consciousness implicit here, not implicit there. So I dunno it's a tricky one. I mean, I'm evidently much confrontational erstwhile I spot thing stupid. I request to constituent retired that it's anserine due to the fact that it's stupid. And it's it's a tricky one.

[00:07:37] Michael Saylor: Yeah I deliberation it's complicated. Your champion strategy is to is the strategy, which persuades the radical with the powerfulness to enactment your constituent of view, right? if you don't transportation the radical with the powerfulness to enactment your constituent of view, you haven't succeeded. So you conscionable gotta fig retired however to bash that.

Generally, I find that being constructive and cheerful and acquisition is simply a batch much effectual than being toxic and confrontational. Look connected Twitter. If you're toxic and confrontational, you conscionable get blocked and past you person nary power implicit anybody that follows that idiosyncratic ever again.

So. And it, you know, if you locomotion into a mayor's bureau and you're toxic and confrontational, you conscionable get kicked retired and that's the extremity of that. And they conscionable presume that immoderate you liked is incorrect and they, and not lone bash they not springiness you what you wanted, they spell outta their mode to, to not springiness you what you wanted due to the fact that it's personal.

So I deliberation you ne'er truly wanna marque it personal. And you that phrase, those, that gods would destroy. They archetypal marque mad.

And the different constituent is, you know, bash you wanna win oregon bash you conscionable wanna fight? Right. due to the fact that the, I, if we travel backmost to prima zoo and the like, right, the perfect happening is to triumph the warfare without fighting,

Not to prosecute successful a 100 battles that you win. Right. And truthful coming backmost to Bitcoin, what you privation is for each nation, enactment and idiosyncratic to clasp it and enactment it. That's what you want. So if you're if you're spending a batch of clip to archer the satellite wherefore idiosyncratic is anserine and has quality flaw, right? You're ripping idiosyncratic other down, but that's not gathering a Bitcoin, right? Ultimately you gotta take your fights precise carefully. And I deliberation there's immoderate fights we're taking.

For example, I deliberation it's tenable to combat the golden bugs due to the fact that we some hold with dependable money, but each dollar invested successful golden is simply a dollar non invested successful Bitcoin. And that's a conflict we tin win. We should triumph due to the fact that it's a payment to them erstwhile they switch. It's a payment to Bitcoin erstwhile they switch. Right. I don't deliberation it's each that constructive to combat a conflict to destruct the, you know, the Euro like. The likelihood of really persuading 20% of golden bugs to wantonness golden and follow Bitcoin arsenic the reserve currency are a batch higher than the likelihood of persuading 20% of the Europeans to halt utilizing the Euro and permission the EU.

You see? So, truthful there's immoderate battles that just, I don't deliberation marque that overmuch consciousness and different battles marque a batch of sense. They're ones that are winnable and by the way, the champion conflict is, if you indispensable combat a battle, the conflict you wanna combat is against ignorance. And the past successful favour of the future, everybody wants to spell into the future, knows they're going into the future.

And you'll find, I would deliberation 95% hold if I said, bash you deliberation modern exertion tin marque your beingness better? I deliberation you find not everybody. Some radical would accidental I wanna unrecorded disconnected the grid, you know, with. 19th period tech but astir radical would say, yeah, modern exertion is mostly amended and I wanna clasp it. So if you look astatine the truly almighty entities and companies that turn precise rapidly, they turn by not forcing radical to marque a hard decision. you know, I springiness distant escaped Facebook. I springiness distant escaped Google. Like however hard is it for Google to dispersed to a cardinal people? They springiness it distant for free. They don't archer you, you person to wantonness your religion oregon wantonness your nation, oregon wantonness your citizenship oregon combat with your authorities oregon combat with your employer. They conscionable springiness you a escaped search. So, truthful I deliberation that the champion happening is conscionable springiness people, technology. Technology represents thing amended successful the aboriginal that came retired of quality ingenuity. The, and if you tin bash that, you don't person to combat with anybody. You're conscionable astatine your axenic education. The adjacent champion is if you indispensable combat is combat a conflict to transportation radical that they're amended disconnected buying a Bitcoin than buying a rental flat arsenic a store of value, oregon they're amended disconnected buying a Bitcoin than buying a barroom of golden and explicate to them wherefore Bitcoin is amended than a barroom of golden oregon amended than a rental apartment, oregon amended than, you know, a clump of lumber successful the backmost of the house. And, you know, if you framework it similar that, right, the federation of Lumber's not gonna get offended. I mean, we're astir apt the golden bugs get a small spot upset, but a again astatine the extremity of the day, they're the astir organized. What astir each the other, you know, idiosyncratic that wants you to bargain 3 flat units and Airbnb them connected the play successful bid to similar discontinue that person's not gonna combat you back.

So I deliberation if you combat that plus war, there's a 100 trillion dollars there, right? We're 500, we're little than 500 billion. So Bitcoin tin can summation by a origin of 200 from present simply by getting radical to alteration their plus allocations. And you know, truthful betwixt that and technology, those are conscionable acquisition pursuits. And past you're gonna ha you're gonna person competitors that'll say, yea don't usage Bitcoin usage my BI usage my impervious of involvement happening and bash it without electricity. And you're gonna person to explicate that without the electricity, you don't person a commodity, you person a information and a information needs to beryllium registered and taken nationalist with afloat and just disclosures.

Cuz it's centralized you. You request to explicate that successful a cheerful constructive way, but you request to explicate it and past you, possibly you request to explicate how. Yeah, careless of each those things, right? The Bitcoin web is 10,000 times much unafraid and much reliable and much agelong lived than the different thing.

And truthful you person to explicate that, but you're amended off. I deliberation a classical marketer would accidental you're amended disconnected to conception the market. You're amended disconnected to say, Bitcoin is integer energy. It's a commodity, you know, you bargain it due to the fact that you can't stockpile lipid and you don't wanna ain 37 rental apartments and you don't wanna transportation golden bars done airports.

That's wherefore you bargain Bitcoin. These different things, they're securities their bundle companies and bundle programs. If you wanna put successful pome oregon Google oregon Facebook oregon immoderate impervious of involvement network, they're each investments, marque definite you got afloat and just disclosure, marque definite you know, who owns it, marque definite you cognize what to expect, but their investments successful exertion companies and Bitcoin's competing. you're gonna warehouse soybeans for a decade. Yeah. It's competing against alloy and lipid and earthy state and land. And it's it's a integer property, integer commodity, and it's the highest signifier of integer commodity. It's integer energy. It's IOR to past forever. You tin oscillate it astatine a 1000 megahertz.

It's a chill thing. Let maine archer you each astir it. If you conception the marketplace similar that. No, it's like, I conjecture I'd similar immoderate of that. What other is integer energy? There's different web a 100 times smaller, you know, cheque retired the marketplace headdress of the different impervious of enactment networks. They're one, you know, determination are 50 ground points, 70 ground points of Bitcoin.

So they're similar I deliberation I wanna ain the 1 that's a 100 times bigger.

Okay. And conscionable and past spell sound connected the adjacent door. there's a batch of doors to sound on, right?

[00:15:28] Aleks Svetski: a bully framing. That's a bully framing. I mean, I mean, what astir each the radical who are benignant of fed up with each of the overreach and shenanigans, peculiarly implicit the past 2 years? You know, cuz determination seems to be, I mean, erstwhile I've been retired determination pitching Bitcoin, determination seems to beryllium a craving for the connection that I cognize is much adversarial, but radical look to be.

Wanting oregon craving, similar however do

[00:15:59] Michael Saylor: that's, there's a governmental enactment and a governmental message, which is, you know, the libertarian enactment reflects that connection little government,

Right? The Republican party, you know, reflects a flimsy quality from the antiauthoritarian enactment and the libertarian enactment reflects a bigger difference. The Ron Paul libertarian party.

Kind of aligns closest with what the Bitcoiners would say. I deliberation I would accidental articulation that party, prosecute those politics, but I would marque them arsenic libertarian oregon marque oregon make that party. I don't deliberation I would conjoin it with Bitcoin. See if your presumption is you deliberation the government's overreached fiscally, you don't hold with their overseas policy, you don't hold with the taxation policy.

You don't hold with their home policy. You don't hold with their vigor policy. You don't hold with their aesculapian policy. You don't hold with their acquisition policy. You don't hold with their commercialized policy, their tariff policy, their home manufacturing policy, their labour and national policies.

Sure. But that's politics. You cognize what I mean? Like that's a beingness of fights. And retrieve backmost to laser eyes, each 1 of those fights is conscionable arsenic hard. In fact, astir apt a batch harder than the Bitcoin. So I deliberation that if you said you person to triumph each those fights for Bitcoin to beryllium successful, right?

You're benignant of, you're picking a 100 different battles to combat and it's counterproductive and destructive due to the fact that we request those people, right. There are radical that, you know, successful the antiauthoritarian party, we request them to enactment Bitcoin. There are radical successful the Republican party, we request them to enactment Bitcoin.

You mightiness disagree with Republican politics. You mightiness disagree with antiauthoritarian politics. the bulk of the country. I don't cognize if it's 50% oregon 80%, but the bulk of the state disagrees with the libertarian party. Otherwise they would've elected idiosyncratic by now. So those are governmental fights and yeah.

The Bitcoin assemblage is is precise aligned with a batch of those views. Right. And truthful americium I, but my constituent is, yeah, you don't request to fix, you're present dealing with the 50% different problems successful the world,

Right. You're trying to hole the schools and hole the hospitals and hole the overseas argumentation and hole the fiscal policy.

And you're trying to, let's accidental it a antithetic way. Why's the currency collapsing due to the fact that of each these argumentation interventions. So if you wanna hole the currency, you person to hole a 100 things that are radical, that are highly confrontational that are that nary 1 tin hold on. If you wanna hole the Fiat currency, oregon you tin simply amended radical that Bitcoin is amended than golden and Bitcoin volition beryllium a cardinal dollars a coin, and you're not gonna hole immoderate of those different things.

You're conscionable gonna hole Bitcoin. And you're gonna marque everyone that supports Bitcoin a 100 times arsenic powerful.

So you see, like, bash you wanna really incrementally bash bully oregon bash you conscionable wanna fight? Cause I don't, you know, I deliberation that if you conscionable wanna fight, right, you tin besides spell to Ukraine and you tin combat connected 1 broadside oregon the different side.

It's not wide to me. Like we fought successful Iraq for 20 years. What did we fix? Like, similar however overmuch vigor bash you person to combat implicit this? And I would accidental there's noth, there's nary crushed wherefore you can't get progressive successful authorities if you privation to. I conscionable deliberation that conjoining the politics, it's a mistake for Bitcoin to go associated with 1 enactment oregon the different enactment similar is Bitcoin pro-abortion oregon anti-abortion I don't deliberation it's either of those things.

Right. It's amended to enactment neutral and enactment Switzerland. At the constituent that the Bitcoin becomes politicized astatine that constituent 45, 40% of the state volition cull you reflexively without listening to a word. You say,

[00:20:15] Aleks Svetski: Yeah. I hold with that. I think

[00:20:16] Michael Saylor: What let's prime immoderate of a 100 challenges we person successful this state sanction 1 happening retired of the 100 biggest disagreements we person that we person worked done successful a civilian manner successful the past 10 years.

[00:20:28] Aleks Svetski: yeah. Zero. Yeah.

[00:20:30] Michael Saylor: but so, truthful there, determination aren't galore Alex determination aren't examples of six governmental successes successful the past 10 years.

We don't person many, but determination are plentifulness of examples of technology, successes, Uber exertion success. Apple, Google Netflix, Facebook Disney, positive what's up each the games, adjacent arguably cryptocurrency Bitcoin technology, successes. We person many. And why, due to the fact that technologies are neutral apolitical, and there's a wide statement successful this state that we are exertion leaders, not each country, right?

Like let's accidental we lived successful a fundamentalist spiritual theocracy that fought that exertion was evil from Satan and we would each pain successful hellhole and they were against caller FAL gadgets. Then possibly the exertion strategy wouldn't beryllium a bully 1 successful that country. Like I, for example, I don't truly deliberation successful North Korea, close North Korea, Cuba they're against spot rights. right. They'll execution you for trying, saying, I privation to ain backstage property, right? That's a felony. Okay. So determination are definite jurisdictions wherever they're precise hostile to to a spot strategy. There are theoretical jurisdictions wherever it be, they beryllium hostile to exertion strategy. Although it's applicable matter. Most radical similar technology, similar adjacent the northbound Koreans, they were into hacking. Right. I mean, they indispensable wholly emotion the guys that hacked the Sony servers right. To bargain each that contraband. So they're not against that. So, truthful we're backmost to this question, right? What tin you accomplish? I deliberation Alex, I'm 50. I'm 57. And truthful I've, you know, I've gotten dozens of patents and I've launched dozens of businesses and I've had tons of ideas and I emotion them all. And I've had thousands, tens of thousands of employees, and I've tried antithetic things and I've spent billions of dollars doing antithetic things. And what I've learned implicit the people of my beingness is mostly you overestimate what you tin execute erstwhile you person a passionateness for a bully idea, and you underestimate the attraction outgo and you underestimate however challenging it's going to beryllium to to nett and to bask that idea. So similar you, if you person a bully a bully business, you person to origin a immense magnitude of energy. If you enactment afloat clip to support that business, it'll enactment effective. As soon arsenic you accidental it's similar I motorboat a edifice and past I spell and I unfastened up different restaurant, the different broadside of municipality and that's successful.

So I spell to Chicago and I unfastened up a 3rd 1 and past I spell to San Francisco and unfastened up the 4th one. And then, you know, I spell to Miami and unfastened up 5th 1 and I get backmost to, you know, New York metropolis wherever my archetypal edifice is and each my customers are gone and my employees quit, you know?

And past the New York times is penning an nonfiction astir however my edifice utilized to beryllium good, but present the nutrient is garbage. And past the different restaurants, you know, the partners similar default connected thing oregon the landlord fundamentally triples the rent. And beauteous soon I've similar gone bankrupt, you know, immoderate person rezones my district.

And what you recognize is you underestimate each of the challenges you overestimate, what you tin accomplish, and radical get bored precise quickly. So they, you know, they thin to wanna spell connected and combat the adjacent fight. It's like, you know, like, Napoleon charging, helium mislaid an full service charging into Russia connected the way to Moscow stupid.

But past helium charged into Egypt, Napoleon mislaid an service successful Egypt. Okay. Really then, you know,

[00:24:40] Aleks Svetski: Germans did the aforesaid thing.

[00:24:41] Michael Saylor: and the Germans are the aforesaid thing, you know, and the Americans, you retrieve Charlie Wilson's war, Charlie Wilson's warfare is each astir however anserine the Russians are to spell successful Afghanistan and however Americans gleefully made amusive of the Russians were being truthful anserine arsenic to spell in

[00:24:55] Aleks Svetski: Then did the aforesaid thing.

[00:24:57] Michael Saylor: I deliberation we did the aforesaid thing. It's like, you know, the quality can, by the way, Julius Caesar mislaid an service successful Egypt, right? It's a ne'er ending story, which is radical ever overestimate what they tin accomplish. I launched astir 10 businesses. The archetypal 1 is still. The winning business, right? The archetypal one, and what I recovered is that 1 you truly had to absorption connected with your bosom and soul. And mostly what you find is successful your thirties, idiosyncratic hits it large and they motorboat a palmy concern and past some, and past they deliberation 2 years later, what's my adjacent large success. And they person this idea. They're conscionable gonna sound disconnected 5 large successes successful a row. Okay. And everybody, yet they deed that successful Tropic frontier wherever they can't vie anymore.

And it's, it could beryllium thought of a antithetic way. There's astir apt 10,000 things you tin bash that you tin acquire, that you tin buy, that you tin motorboat that you tin do. There's astir apt a 100 of them that you tin beryllium competitory in. Where you are arsenic bully arsenic the champion idiosyncratic successful the world.

Everywhere else. Yeah. You got it successful the business, but you're not satellite class, possibly a 100 and there's astir apt 1 of them that you tin beryllium competitory successful and marque a nett astatine and turn consistently amended astatine implicit time, specified that you enactment competitive.

So that threshold of participate the market, beryllium profitable, marque wealth successful the marketplace and turn everlastingly against the smartest, astir competitory radical successful the marketplace that is 10,000 times harder than a, tin you conscionable bash it? So radical thin to prime fights that they can't triumph and past they prime fights that they win, wherever they triumph the battle, but they suffer the war.

It's like, okay, you, okay? So what are you gonna bash if you really get Russia? Okay. Like you're not gonna beryllium capable to govern it. You wanna amusive work the past of William, the conqueror, William, the conqueror, you know, roseate through, done unfortunate circumstance.

He was an orphan and helium roseate to conquer Normandy and was a success, got everything helium ever wanted, you know, got married, had kids, cleanable life. And past helium decided helium got successful his caput that helium was the rightful heir to the UK. And helium had to complaint crossed the transmission and conquer Britain. And he's thought a 1000 years aboriginal is this great, awesome guy, William, the conqueror.

That's his name? He's the lone feline successful a 1000 years that ever conquered Britain. But if you work the communicative of what happened, helium had lone took him a mates of weeks to conquer Britain, but helium couldn't govern Britain. His full beingness fell apart. His household fell apart. His woman turned against him, his lad declared warfare connected him.

He fought 2 civilian wars against his ain son. And yet helium died astatine warfare with his ain children, you know, and was rolled into a ditch penniless, you know, couldn't adjacent spend a funeral, this top of each conquerors of a 1000 years. And if you work the biography, the decision is helium overextended spot off, much than helium could chew due to the fact that helium had a monolithic ego. And truthful the communicative of radical with monolithic egos wanting to constitute the wrongs of the world, Is passim history, everyplace successful each business, each company, you know, similar it's a 99% mortality complaint successful my business, they each neglect due to the fact that of atrocious acquisitions. The crushed bundle companies neglect is cuz the CEO has to support expanding.

They person to support growing. And if you can't turn and they either effort to turn organically and they interruption the institution oregon they turn done acquisitions and they interruption the institution and it's virtually similar 99% likely. It's just, that's what happens. And truthful erstwhile you look astatine that, the decision you travel to is if you person 1 bully idea, get up each time and fig retired however to dispersed that connection oregon however to support that bully idea. Like we, we shouldn't beryllium trying to hole 27 different problems successful the world. What we ought to bash is marque definite that nary 1 corrupts the Bitcoin code. It's much important for example, that we don't F with the web and screw it up. It's much important that we support the integrity of what we have. And 98% of the satellite doesn't adjacent cognize what we have. And truthful educating France oregon educating Germany connected wherefore the car follow atomic reactors oregon getting successful immoderate monolithic combat over, you know, authorities overreach successful the aesculapian business, each of these things are conscionable different battles. They're for somebody.

But, you know, if you truly wanna beryllium a atomic activist, I would accidental you should beryllium 150% focused connected That thing. Right. Don't necktie yourself to immoderate different thing.

[00:30:01] Aleks Svetski: you mentioned before. We haven't seen immoderate governmental wins, which I hold with. But we've seen galore technological ones. Do you deliberation we've seen immoderate taste oregon societal benignant of wins oregon revolutions oregon travel up ins successful the past mates decades?

[00:30:18] Michael Saylor: I mean, I conjecture the progressives could reason that. I mean, they've, determination person been a batch of progressive, you know, docket items that person made bully advancement implicit time.

[00:30:27] Aleks Svetski: Is that much governmental oregon taste oregon bash you benignant of spot them successful the aforesaid bucket?

[00:30:33] Michael Saylor: Yeah. I deliberation they're the same.

[00:30:35] Aleks Svetski: Interesting. Okay. What makes governmental and taste the aforesaid successful your.

[00:30:38] Michael Saylor: There are taste war, but let's instrumentality Critical contention theory, right. Or thing going connected successful the schoolhouse strategy oregon or teaching immoderate peculiar theories successful school. The crushed they're governmental is due to the fact that the authorities controls the schoolhouse strategy and the government, you know? And truthful the governmental unions lend to the enactment which contributes, you know, guidance to the government.

The authorities changes the rules to to dispersed a definite argumentation done the schools,

To the grade that the authorities has powerfulness over, implicit immoderate right.

[00:31:11] Aleks Svetski: So it becomes taste successful that sense. So it's benignant of similar apical down taste enforcements that have. Bottom up emergent culture, which is, I mean, people however it was anyway,

[00:31:22] Michael Saylor: Look, authorities matter. Right. So there's nary doubt, like, similar authorities unopen down the atomic powerfulness industry.

Politics bash substance successful a batch of places, authorities resulted successful accidental azygous household homes, getting subsidized by the authorities via Fred Mac and Fannie Mae. And that drove down the outgo of location mortgages and it drove up the terms of homes and it it shifted the dynamic and it enriched a batch of radical successful the existent property industry.

Right. So authorities bash matter. I'm not saying they don't matter. What I'm saying is that if you're in, if you judge that Bitcoin is bully for the quality contention and bully for the civilization, you should bounds your governmental engagement to what's bully for Bitcoin and not get progressive successful each the different governmental fights.

The different governmental fights marque you toxic cuz fractional the politicians, right? Pick a, instrumentality a position, right. And you're gonna really alienate 30, 40% of the politicians. And you mightiness request those politicians. There's if we travel backmost the mode a institution act. Right. Like, let's instrumentality the Disney corporation.

No, you know, the Disney challenges they've got successful Florida of precocious with Disney world, they got political

Companies, shouldn't beryllium political. They shouldn't explicit governmental preferences this mode oregon that you're, you know, you retrieve the aged operation unopen up and sing.

You know, you, if you're a singer, you privation everybody successful the assemblage to emotion you for your song. As soon arsenic you commencement to explicit a governmental opinion, whether it's close oregon near oregon immoderate it is, past there's gonna beryllium immoderate successful the assemblage that's gonna instrumentality offense. And you've conscionable diminished your quality to dispersed your existent message. So the question is, what are you trying to do?

Are you trying to sing a opus oregon are you trying to really dispersed a governmental message? If you were a truly bully stone and rotation singer? I wouldn't accidental spell connected signifier and accidental golden sucks. Bitcoin is good. You know, like. right, due to the fact that your docket is to entertain the audience, right? So beryllium profe being nonrecreational means keeping your idiosyncratic views retired of your nonrecreational platform. So I, I conscionable deliberation generally, if you're gonna beryllium professional, if you're professionally pursuing the docket of fixing the vigor and the civilization via Bitcoin, and if you judge that Bitcoin is large technology, which is, volition beryllium large money, which could beryllium a large currency, which tin hole a batch of things. You're amended disconnected to conscionable enactment nonrecreational and cheerfully, constructively advocator for Bitcoin. You're gonna find radical that disagree with you and they hatred you, oregon they hatred Bitcoin. But like, if some, erstwhile idiosyncratic that's truly a professional oregon a hater connected accidental Twitter, erstwhile they accidental thing truly offensive, I don't spell and straight onslaught them.

That's not gonna transportation anybody. They person 5 cardinal followers that travel them due to the fact that they respect what they person to say. So if you onslaught that person, you alienate their followers. And if you prosecute successful a statement with anybody astir immoderate subject, different than Bitcoin you're perchance alienating followers. So, I mean, so, successful this peculiar case, the constructive engagement is conscionable is if you're gonna troll, idiosyncratic is to say, you know, you person that constituent of view. There are immoderate radical that hap to person this constituent of view. And this is the crushed they person this constituent of view. And present is simply a spot you tin spell to get much information, right?

Like you, you tin crook a speech 90 degrees. Like sometimes you deliberation the Bitcoin is atrocious due to the fact that you deliberation it's a currency, but did you cognize it's actually, we deliberation of it arsenic a property, not a currency. Someone volition say, Bitcoin is bad, cuz it's atrocious for the due to the fact that it's a currency and I similar the america dollar.

And truthful I don't similar Bitcoin. Remember Donald Trump said that erstwhile I similar the america dollar, I don't similar Bitcoin. The effect is not, you're not astute enough. Right? The effect is, don't accidental if you were smarter, you wouldn't accidental that. Don't accidental that the effect is really I recognize wherefore you would accidental that different radical person been led to judge it's a currency due to the fact that of the operation cryptocurrency.

But successful fact, we've travel to spot that it's really a spot and it's been designated arsenic a spot by the IRS. So, truthful it's a integer golden superior to golden successful each way. And if you similar gold, you mightiness similar Bitcoin a spot amended than gold, but it is not a menace to the state oregon to the currency.

Now that mightiness not transportation the idiosyncratic that was against Bitcoin, but the 500,000 radical that work the comment. We'll look astatine it and possibly 10% of them would beryllium persuaded. And if you flip 10% of 500,000 people, you conscionable got 50,000 caller comments by being polite and respectful and constructive and not confrontational, but conscionable engaging.

Now, immoderate radical won't adjacent fto you prosecute that much, right? I mean, but, and you person to justice that. The perfect happening to bash though is to prosecute successful a technical, constructive manner to educate, you know, portion you empathize, similar I empathize with you, you wanna assistance the world. And you deliberation that Bitcoin is atrocious due to the fact that idiosyncratic is taking vantage idiosyncratic here, but, you know, Bitcoin is really bully due to the fact that of this and this and this volition assistance the satellite and assistance you execute your mission. If we spell retired each time and we explicate to radical however they tin execute their goals successful beingness with our technology, We won't transportation everybody, but you'll person the slightest toxic pushback.

[00:37:01] Aleks Svetski: Do you deliberation what's your thoughts astir the increasing fig of radical who for example, person thing against. property. So, I mean, Mark Moss and I wrote this happening present arsenic a, arsenic an reply to benignant of the corporate of ideology. And I mean, communism successful a operation evidently was summed up arsenic the abolition of backstage property.

So, truthful determination seems to beryllium a increasing fig of radical who, you know, privation radical to ain thing and beryllium happy.

[00:37:28] Michael Saylor: I deliberation that the right, I don't deliberation it's that constructive to onslaught attack, almighty entity, similar attacking the satellite slope oregon attacking the IMF oregon attacking the satellite economical forum. I don't deliberation it's that constructive due to the fact that they don't deliberation that they're against anything. They deliberation they're trying to help.

and 40% of the nine doesn't deliberation immoderate different. So each you're doing is isolating yourself. Let's instrumentality a spot wherever they don't similar spot Cuba. They don't similar property. Like, it's amerciable to ain anything. North Korea it's amerciable to ain anything. They don't similar property. Okay. I wouldn't suggest that you alert to North Korea and instrumentality retired a banner and run to effort to alteration the country.

They're conscionable gonna sprout you. Right. So the constituent truly is if idiosyncratic is truly wholly against spot alternatively than, you know, you wanna spell run for authorities alteration successful North Korea, similar what's that doing for your family? Right? Like how's that? Helping everybody successful America, a amended thought is you person 250 cardinal oregon 350 cardinal radical successful the United States that judge successful spot close successful beforehand of your face.

Why don't you conscionable spell present Bitcoin to them and get a 1000 times more, much powerful.

[00:38:44] Aleks Svetski: bash you

[00:38:45] Michael Saylor: If you're gonna spell to warfare with different country, wherefore don't you spell up and get a 1000 times much almighty earlier you prime that

[00:38:52] Aleks Svetski: . Yeah I deliberation that condemnation determination sums up the full presumption is

[00:38:56] Michael Saylor: And it's the different contented is sometimes radical are looking to beryllium disagreeable. Like you can, for illustration the caput of the IMF is really beauteous intelligent economist, and she said immoderate things that are precise affirmative astir Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. You could either clasp that and say, look, it looks similar she understands what's going on.

And you can, you could be, you know, focusing upon convincing the IMF to clasp Bitcoin, cuz it helps them execute their mission. Or you could conscionable cull each banker everyplace successful the satellite that works for immoderate entity that. There are radical that are inactive huffy astir what happened connected Jack O land a 100 years ago.

Right. But the constituent is erstwhile you're tweeting, you know, Neil cash, Garry's time, you know, clip interrogation from 10 years ago, right. You're conscionable being confrontational. On the different hand, if you conscionable clasp the actors and the institutions today, past you're being you're being cooperative. And what we ought to beryllium trying to bash is transportation them and triumph them implicit arsenic opposed to bash you truly wanna punctual idiosyncratic that they should combat with you and you're their mortal force forever, right?

If you state warfare connected someone, what that means is they request to state warfare backmost connected you. So I just, I don't spot it's constructive to, to prime those fights. If idiosyncratic says thing you find disagreeable, you tin take to say, they're my force everlastingly due to the fact that of a quality flaw, oregon you tin take to accidental they said something.

I find disagreeable due to the fact that they were misinformed oregon hadn't focused connected the matter. And nary 1 has explained to them wherefore they should follow the other constituent of view. See if you instrumentality the 2nd view, you're conscionable gonna spell amended them. And astatine the precise least, you're not gonna beryllium toxic. If you instrumentality the erstwhile view, past you're gonna origin them to beryllium a 100 X much confrontational toward you, past they different would beryllium right.

So, truthful you're really benignant of undermining your ain involvement to, to prime those fights. I don't deliberation you request to. I deliberation it's good to say, look, Bitcoin is large for radical to similar spot rights. and fto maine explicate to you wherefore this is aligned with spot rights and state and exertion and integrity.

I deliberation that's fine. I deliberation I deliberation flipping it and saying nary we're state fighters. And truthful I'm going to spell disconnected to the mediate eastbound and I'm gonna combat for the state rights of,

[00:41:36] Aleks Svetski: of,

[00:41:37] Michael Saylor: you know, of this faction oregon that faction. Like present you benignant of get, you got the process wagon, the dog, oregon you mislaid the plot. The extremity is not to combat implicit a 100 different things. The extremity is not to constitute each of the wrongs successful the satellite that you disagree with. That's similar aggravated young antheral behavior. The extremity is to triumph and the mode you triumph is absorption and don't marque enemies, right? Like it's like, it's casual to marque enemies.

It feel, it feels bully by the way. you know, it's similar for example, it's similar Elon Musk tweet thing and immoderate radical wanna spell and like, and onslaught him this mode and that, and past they find retired he's gonna ain Twitter. It's like, oops. Like, like, similar the happening that I find truly a euphony is radical volition spell and en and prosecute successful a monolithic advertisement location and an onslaught connected an idiosyncratic wherever they conscionable disparage their quality and everything else, due to the fact that they said thing that they disagree, that the idiosyncratic disagreed with.

And past they hide it. And 3 months aboriginal they privation to spell and prosecute with that aforesaid idiosyncratic oregon get their help. And, you know, I deliberation I deliberation what you find is, look, I, if you look astatine the bluish checks among the bluish checks, 95% of the time, they're precise polite to each different and that's cuz they person thing to lose.

They're named, they person a estimation and it volition bespeak severely upon them, their constituents and their reputation. If they enactment successful a toxic fashion, it it's it undermines their institution, their career, their credibility connected the different manus anonymous actors connected Twitter, particularly the tiny Nim accounts.

They don't basal for an instauration and they don't needfully person that aforesaid reputation. They volition spell and beryllium precise toxic. And I tin spot the benefits of speaking truthfully and putting accusation connected the record. But the contented with the toxicity is like, if you're toxic to me, Alex, bash you cognize what I bash connected Twitter?

When someone's toxic to me, I look for astir a 100 milliseconds block. and ne'er deliberation astir them for the remainder of my life. Like you virtually volition get a 100 milliseconds. I don't type, you know, you've been rude connected blocking you, right? I'm not gonna Bo I'm not going to virtually click much than 1 fastener I'm going to block.

And erstwhile I do, you volition never, ever right. Be capable to prosecute successful my watercourse ever again. So I deliberation the bluish checks, they cognize that they're similar if 1 of them is like, I wouldn't spell and beryllium rude to idiosyncratic with 5 cardinal followers cuz they conscionable artifact maine and I volition suffer entree to each 5 cardinal of their followers forever. Maybe I would similar to beryllium capable to accidental thing to the hide astir the people. Think astir the 5 cardinal radical underneath them, right? You request to get to those people. So being polite and constructive means that you enactment engaged successful the conversation. As soon arsenic you you spell J you conscionable somewhat tweak it to beryllium advertisement Homin them.

You know, the champion you tin anticipation for is they mute you. But the much apt happening is they artifact you. And that aforesaid dynamic happens connected different platforms and successful the existent world, which is, you're conscionable wholly outta the conversation. So your extremity is to transportation someone. If you're, it's like, if you're a salesperson, you know, this, if you spent 20 years merchantability selling to someone, you amusement up, they person the money, you wanna marque the sale.

So they commencement by telling you're anserine and you're ugly, and you're poorly dressed, and you're not arsenic astute arsenic them. And they could bash your occupation amended than you could bash the job. And the rival gave a amended terms and blah, blah, blah. And they conscionable trash you, you conscionable grin and motion and. They archer you, they're not gonna bargain from you.

And you accidental I'll beryllium present erstwhile you're acceptable and you spell location and possibly similar 3 years later, you amusement up and you get the sale. And erstwhile you get to sale, you don't accidental you know, you truly were rude to maine and you were, you know, a jerk, you conscionable instrumentality the wealth and smile. The lawsuit is ever right, because

[00:45:51] Aleks Svetski: Cause

[00:45:52] Michael Saylor: you could bash the opposite.

Right? You could conscionable say, I don't privation your money. You were a jerk to me. Okay. But the bottommost enactment is astir radical are jerks, similar astatine immoderate constituent successful their life. And by the clip you X retired each of the radical that you find disagreeable, there's cipher near to bash concern with. And and there's nary and you've been exed retired of this society.

So you're gonna person to unrecorded connected an land determination and, you know, effort generating your ain energy and sportfishing for your ain nutrient connected the land and anticipation you ne'er person to regenerate your, instrumentality retired your appendix oregon something, cuz it'll beryllium difficult. So. We person to get on with each other. We don't person to close each other's flaws. We don't person to triumph each battle. All we request to bash is conscionable amended the world.

[00:46:44] Aleks Svetski: fto maine pivot, I wanna speech to you astir engineering. You were connected Lexus's pod recently, and you benignant of said that civilization gets a, B positive successful engineering and the philosophies oregon the economical benignant of country gets a D minus you know, mostly due to the fact that we've made advancement and, you know, we've had a spot of a lavation successful that realm.

But I conjecture I wanted to inquire 1 nuanced portion astir that is exertion oregon engineering seems to beryllium acold much progressive successful nature. Like arsenic successful we physique connected apical of it, whereas philosophies oregon principles oregon economics look to beryllium oregon morality, for example, seems to beryllium much principled successful nature. It's not thing that you know, erstwhile you've figured retired similar a methodology for living, you know, oregon a doctrine of morality, for example, it benignant of stays the same, right?

The it's not similar engineering, which you benignant of proceed to physique connected apical of. So I conjecture archetypal is, bash you person a thought connected that? And past next, I privation to inquire you astir engineering for complexity, due to the fact that I've got a small spot of a digresion connected that.

[00:47:51] Michael Saylor: I deliberation that to the grade we depoliticize things, we marque progress. The determination to usage alloy alternatively of wood successful a location is not truthful overmuch political. And erstwhile you physique a alloy building, it's demonstrably better.

So the information that you tin show virtue. In an apolitical mode is what causes subject and exertion to advance. It's not ever right. If you person a theocracy wherever you can't right, similar look what they did to Galileo, right?

[00:48:22] Aleks Svetski: Also um, I mean mean mean besides Russia and Stalin, right? Same.

[00:48:24] Michael Saylor: yeah. If you person a civilization that doesn't fto you bash that successful an apolitical way, past you don't beforehand truthful fast. But mostly the vantage of engineering disciplines is I tin build, if I physique a atrocious plane, it crashes and burns and it's obvious.

And if I physique a bully level and you get successful and you fly, it's obvious, aforesaid with ships, aforesaid with railroads. Same with a batch of things, aforesaid with guns, right? I mean, you know, you propulsion the trigger and blows up successful your face. Right. You know, it doesn't substance whether you're you person this governmental presumption oregon that governmental view, you similar the weapon that works the mode you wanted it to work.

And truthful those things thin to beryllium precise virtuousness driven and they're precise Darwinian too. Right.

Whereas if you look astatine the fields of economics and philosophy, we're inactive debating the close signifier of authorities for 2,500 years,

Right. Democracy versus monarchy versus autocracy oligarchy versus immoderate it is.

There's inactive a debate. We haven't resolved that statement really. So I deliberation that those are harder. O evidently my doctrine is if you wanna amended the quality condition, you're amended disconnected to put successful method solutions than governmental solutions.

[00:49:43] Aleks Svetski: Totally

[00:49:44] Michael Saylor: And that's wherefore I accidental Bitcoin arsenic a integer vigor is simply a method solution. Non-con non controversial. the successor to electricity. Bitcoin arsenic a integer currency is simply a governmental solution, highly controversial. Revolutionary 1 is revolutionary and the different is evolution. One of them is political. The different 1 is technol technical. One of them, you know, invites engineering professors to see whether this is dependable oregon not the different invites economical professors, you know? And truthful you tin see, similar successful winning the conflict of the hearts and the minds, are you much apt to person an technologist that Bitcoin is bully oregon person an economist?

That Bitcoin is good?

[00:50:40] Aleks Svetski: I conjecture it depends the benignant of economist, right. You know, possibly the modern politically influenced economist volition beryllium a small spot tougher due to the fact that they

[00:50:47] Michael Saylor: It's been hard though, right?

[00:50:49] Aleks Svetski: Yeah.

[00:50:49] Michael Saylor: The bulk of economists you know, aren't adjacent successful spirit of, they're not adjacent successful favour of a non-inflationary currency. So, so, my presumption is we're amended disconnected to absorption connected the exertion than the authorities oregon than the economics. But if, and if we indispensable get progressive successful economics, we're amended disconnected to absorption upon conscionable plus allocation of assets, alternatively than absorption upon currency replacements. Currency is ever gonna beryllium political, right? And the adjacent logical combat is the Argentines warring with the Americans implicit whether oregon not Argentine Argentinian citizens tin clasp america dollars. And if it's gonna beryllium a.

[00:51:34] Aleks Svetski: a debate.

[00:51:36] Michael Saylor: Let the Argentine authorities combat with the america authorities implicit that. Right? I mean, they, the United States is not apt to person each their citizens jailed portion they statement with the Argentine authorities section implicit the dollar occupation successful Argentina.

Right. But you don't wanna arsenic a Bitcoin oregon spell down to Argentina and person that aforesaid fight, you know, you're gonna extremity up successful a cage.

[00:52:02] Aleks Svetski: coming backmost to the engineering thing. So I wrote a portion a small portion agone that looked at, I was taking summertime Jordan Peterson's enactment and his section 2 successful his 12 rules for life, benignant of takes the scholar connected a travel astir this thought of chaos and order. And helium talks astir substance and what matters.

And I conjecture the survey of substance could beryllium described arsenic much engineering que it's much empirical successful nature. And peculiarly implicit the past 500 years, there's been a large skew successful civilization towards the advancement successful the survey of matter, right. And things similar religion oregon doctrine oregon economics, et cetera, that benignant of sits much successful the successful the realm of what matters.

And, you know, that's a survey of, you know, however to live, et cetera. Now I've I grappled with this thought of, we've seen truthful overmuch technological oregon engineering benignant advancement that, you know, we possibly successful immoderate sense, what we've done is we've tried to instrumentality each of the studies of what matters. So the more. You know, the much philosophical quality things and effort to spot them successful an empirical container and usage engineering benignant modalities to benignant of hole them.

And this benignant of wherever what I'm getting to present is similar the thought of cardinal readying and full economy, oregon you know, analyzable systems being capable to beryllium distilled into these elemental models and if lone the variables wrong the model. So similar these quality beings should conscionable beryllium variables and if we tin acceptable them successful the box, past everything volition beryllium perfect.

And we person these utopian ideals of however nine should beryllium run. So I conjecture wonderment whether we tin hole things purely done an empirical lens you know, arsenic engineers oregon bash we, tin we benignant of get ourselves. Stuck there. And I mean, the extremity of my effort was fundamentally this thought that Bitcoin benignant of fuses the worlds of substance and what matters due to the fact that Bitcoin is, you know, transcends conscionable being a technological idea.

Like it's, it transcends engineering, it's temporal, societal cultural, and successful immoderate sense, adjacent you've got a spiritual constituent to it, but I wonderment what your thoughts are determination connected those 2 worlds, due to the fact that they are some important. If we skew excessively acold towards the empirical, past you benignant of sanitize the beingness retired of civilization successful a sense.

[00:54:31] Michael Saylor: Yeah. I'm not rather definite you're getting precise philosophical connected me, but I conjecture what I person to accidental astir Bitcoin is Bitcoin represents it. It is substance and vigor successful cyberspace.

That's the large thought we ought to absorption connected and we ought to beryllium sending that connection to each engineers everyplace that without Bitcoin you don't person substance oregon vigor successful cyberspace and everything that exists successful the, in.

Internet domain successful the integer domain is simply a simulation oregon a exemplary of thing successful the existent world. The value of, you know, being capable to transportation thing of worth without an intermediary means that if I tin transportation it to you without intermediary, I tin instantiate it oregon I tin manifest it without an intermediary.

And that means it stands unsocial successful cyberspace alternatively than being an representation of thing that is successful the existent world. The representation successful the existent satellite makes it a security.

[00:55:35] Aleks Svetski: world.

[00:55:36] Michael Saylor: Whereas erstwhile you really manifest the existent unit, the Satoshi successful the integer realm, it is matter. I tin make thing of substance successful the integer realm.

Using Bitcoin. And if that's the case, past that, that introduces the tract of engineering and physics into cyberspace. And that's, what's been missing successful the full integer realm. The integer realm for the past 30 years lacked substance successful vigor and you conscionable had simulations. And that meant that machine subject mightiness person been relevant, but each the different sciences were ne'er relevant.

Like each of the learnings and mechanical engineering and civilian engineering and thermodynamics and physics and worldly subject and aeronautical engineering, each of those insights. They're not applicable if there's nary substance and nary vigor successful the integer realm. So I deliberation that that what makes Bitcoin magical is that for the archetypal clip we introduce. This conception of I mean, idiosyncratic connected Twitter the different time was talking astir irreversible transactions. They said, wherefore was Satoshi truthful fascinated by irreversible transactions? You know? And they approached it from a, you know, a very, I deliberation a constrictive constituent of view, the thought similar we can't person irreversible transactions cuz that allows, you know, we can't hole wealth laundering and we can't CS and however bash we get power of the system? But my thought was, yes, Satoshi wanted irreversible transactions, but the thought for irreversible transactions came from the large almighty erstwhile the beingness was created. Right. Cause you know, successful the, you know, fto determination beryllium airy close successful the beginning, determination was nothing. And past determination was airy light is energy.

So the archetypal happening that happens is energy. And past from and substance is vigor and clip flows successful the beginning, close earlier clip travel beryllium earlier time, determination was nothing.

[00:57:45] Aleks Svetski: Yeah. Maybe it was each the simulation astatine that point. Yeah.

[00:57:48] Michael Saylor: And truthful what happens good erstwhile you really present the conception of irreversibility, you present entropy and time, right? The pass, the progression of clip is the progression of upset successful their inextricably intertwined and matter.

And vigor are inextricably intertwined. And Bitcoin is similar that large bang.

And successful the large bang, you know, successful the beginning, right, determination was nothing. And past each of a abrupt the clip alteration starts to signifier and there's irreversibility. And present there's the transition of time. And present there's. Electricity tally done the Shaw 2 56 protocol to go digitized energy, a integer asset. the quality of the protocol was it was introduced arsenic a blimpish protocol, not an openended protocol, right? One that the beingness has a bound of 21 million. And, you know, and due to the fact that we had that, we had for the archetypal clip this benignant of bearer instrumentality that represents energy, that's conservative.

And if I tin transportation it to myself, to yourself without an intermediary, past I tin instantiate it. And if I tin instantiate it I tin persist it. The quality to persist vigor without an intermediary is what allowed america to chopped the cord with the banks. Now the wealth flowing implicit the internet. Wasn't a reflection.

It wasn't a shadiness of the wealth successful the visa network. It wasn't a shadiness of the wealth successful a bank, right. To paraphrase, you know, Platos, you know, shadows successful the cave, parable

It's like, are you looking astatine shadows oregon are you looking astatine the existent thing? Everything was shadows of the existent happening until Satoshi. And present we really person the existent happening besides known arsenic a, you know, re reified information, but reified, fancy connection for objective, you know, an object, right?

A materialization materialized information. So you could accidental it's materialized information. Sure. Or you could accidental it was dematerialized energy, which is the other mode to accidental the aforesaid thing. So if you're focused upon substance and substance is relevant, due to the fact that substance is conservative, past the astir bonzer happening is the instauration of substance successful cyberspace. Cuz present I tin conception a cardinal dollar operation successful cyberspace, isolated from immoderate instauration oregon individual, right? You could virtually merchandise the happening successful cyberspace and it tin unrecorded connected its own. You wanna, you could successful theory, make immoderate benignant of program, an AI programme that was wealthy, that could unrecorded everlastingly with assets oregon with wealthiness that is wholly abstracted from immoderate carnal counterparty. Right determination and that that has each sorts of implications for ratio done clip and abstraction and persistence

[01:01:18] Aleks Svetski: yeah. There's

[01:01:18] Michael Saylor: and engineering.

[01:01:20] Aleks Svetski: specifically what you said astir the guardant question of time. I deliberation erstwhile that dawned connected maine a fig of years ago, and I've benignant of written astir this before, and I've often said that Bitcoin's top interaction connected quality civilization is the reintroduction of consequence.

And I deliberation these 2 things interplay with each different present is that the information that Bitcoin. Makes substance successful cyberspace to usage your words erstwhile you're successful a simulation and there's nary effect and you tin conscionable behave the mode you want. You make these benignant of deviations. It doesn't relation similar existent beingness anymore.

But erstwhile you reintroduce a consequence, past you request to deliberation doubly astir what you're doing. And it is similar the guardant question of clip successful reality, due to the fact that if I spell time and leap disconnected a cliff and I die, there's nary rewind button. I can't hole that. And it's the aforesaid ways if I nonstop immoderate Bitcoin to the incorrect code there's nary reversibility.

So, truthful it's similar a mapping that the representation really fits the territory for the archetypal clip successful civilization's history. And that effect portion for maine is truly absorbing due to the fact that past it links back. a healthier survey of what matters. When we said before, similar the survey of what substance is like, you know, you've had each these things similar religion and philosophy, et cetera, they've been an effort to effort and grapple with however 1 indispensable behave erstwhile contended with the effect of actions successful the existent world.

And due to the fact that we've benignant of built each these phantasy models erstwhile it comes to whether authorities oregon economics oregon each this different crap that's going connected successful the satellite today, everything's benignant of similar playing unreal similar I saw connected the quality this morning, I was connected the, astatine the gym and I saw president Biden tells the states to little the terms of gas.

It's like, , you can't conscionable unreal your mode into similar fixing a problem. And this is, you know, Bitcoin benignant of removes that quality to unreal and by reintroducing effect it like. I don't know, it, it fixes that dynamic betwixt substance and what matters,

[01:03:22] Michael Saylor: Yeah. We're, you know, we're skeptical of cardinal readying for evident reasons and things that enactment good beryllium due to the fact that they're beyond the domain of politics. So economics, philosophy, politics, each these things are governmental successful nature. And that means that cardinal central planners and politicians tin intervene and volition intervene. And mostly the interventions are each well, meaning and ineffective. And the much interventions they have, the much symptom origin and the champion cases are conscionable well, meaning and effectual and economically crippling. And the worst lawsuit is they're well, meaning and efficaciously and devastating. They make warfare and demolition and topple the full civilization.

Right? So things that are beauteous are things successful quality that are beyond the scope of politics.

So a person can't halt the unit of gravity. you know, similar each these radical say, you know, wherefore would I ever wanna person an irreversible transaction? Like erstwhile you driblet a stone disconnected a cliff, it's irreversible transaction,

Why would you wanna person it?

Because each instrumentality works based upon those principles, right? If I wanna physique a dam, I request to cognize that the h2o ever flows downhill and past nary person is gonna origin the h2o to travel uphill, randomly, you know, per codification due to the fact that it breaks the dam, interior combustion engines enactment connected principles, you know, blistery aerial expands, pistons, fire, you know, centrifugal forces astatine work. So you can't physique a mechanics without without vigor and substance and earthy instrumentality and nary governmental intervention. And that means. If determination is nary substance successful cyberspace, past thing you bash successful ma successful cyberspace matters. And that's wherefore you get, that's wherefore you get 180 cardinal fake accounts connected Twitter each year, due to the fact that thing matters. And that's wherefore you get each the garbage and the spam and the sportfishing attacks and the toxicity due to the fact that thing matters. And erstwhile things commencement to matter, determination are consequences. And erstwhile determination are consequences you know,

[01:05:42] Aleks Svetski: There's

[01:05:43] Michael Saylor: unhealthy successful quality due to the fact that quality recycles, each unhealthy happening precise quickly. I had a goose connected my spot the different time and it broke a leg. , you know, a, Goling a tiny goose and there's similar 50 different geese too. So I person a batch of geese, but this 1 broke a limb and we tried to prevention it by putting it successful the pond and it lasted 1 day. And the adjacent time I got up and I conscionable saw a clump of goose feathers each astir the garden, nary goose.

[01:06:09] Aleks Svetski: oh, wow.

[01:06:10] Michael Saylor: It's either Fox got it. Or present got it. You know, and there's thing to beryllium done astir it. You're not going to spot thing that isn't steadfast successful nature. No lawyers, nary courts, right? No, nary appeal. And you can't, you know, you can't make a mechanics without substance and energy. And truthful if I what's the difference, right?

If the transaction is reversible, past I tin transportation the wealth each 2 months. And the wealth velocity is six times per year. If the transaction is not revers oregon is irreversible, I tin determination it each hour, right? Thousands of times a twelvemonth connected the basal layer, but I could determination it each 2nd connected lightning, oregon I tin enactment it connected a furniture 3 and tweak it a spot and I tin determination it a 1000 times a second. So what's the quality betwixt reversible oregon governmental and irreversible? Right. And I gotta accidental similar contiguous I picked up the telephone and I approved a ligament transportation from a slope to different bank. Okay. I could bash 10 transactions per week connected the phone. That's the 20th period mode utilizing people. And reversible transactions and the velocity, erstwhile you spell to irreversible and matter, and vigor is gonna spell to a kilohertz oregon 10 kilohertz oregon a 1000 kilohertz. And truthful it's not similar 10 X better, oregon a 100 X better, oregon a 1000 X better. It's like

[01:07:55] Aleks Svetski: It's

[01:07:56] Michael Saylor: singing a,

[01:07:57] Aleks Svetski: paradigm. Yeah, exactly.

[01:07:59] Michael Saylor: try, singing a opus by similar tapping your ft connected a stone arsenic accelerated arsenic you can. Yeah. And you spot you, you can't, you know, Beethoven symphony are not gonna come, you know, owed to 1 feline hitting himself implicit the caput with a rock. And that's what we're trying to bash close now, Alex. Right. Everything we built successful cyber space, right. There's shadows of reality. And arsenic overmuch arsenic we archer ourself, We built thing functional. It's what is it? It's like, it's a grotesque, it's a grotesque monstrosity of thing functional. It's similar you tin rotation up 500,000 accounts a time connected Twitter.

Ha. They're each fake. You know, you tin spot 1000 comments a infinitesimal connected Twitter. They're each toxic, garbage, fake, right? They're fake due to the fact that there's nary consequences. There's nary substance there's nary energy. So we make things that person the quality of functionality, but they're not genuinely beauteous and they're not functional. And If we really instrumentality this to the adjacent utmost consider, see each the buildings successful the world, constructed with steel. Now instrumentality distant each the alloy and see what the satellite looks like. Now see each the structures successful cyberspace built without Bitcoin,

Nothing beautiful, every, you know, everything twisted and perverted successful immoderate way, signifier oregon form. Now ideate we present a crypto steel, this happening we telephone Bitcoin integer inter you know, we tally machines and cyberspace connected integer vigor and we physique walls and buildings and structures, and fortreses successful cyberspace with integer matter. And present for the archetypal clip determination are consequences and things bash matter. And what beauteous machines volition we marque and and what benignant of, you know, toxic garbage volition we purge from the system? You commencement conscionable by giving everybody connected Twitter and orangish cheque and get escaped of each the bots, get escaped of each the fake accounts, conscionable get escaped of everything, get escaped of each the scammers.

I deliberation each the scammers connected YouTube, I deliberation arsenic acold arsenic I tin see, there've been 25,000 Michael sailor, Bitcoin giveaway scams launched successful the past six months, 25,000.

[01:10:44] Aleks Svetski: it's

[01:10:45] Michael Saylor: Okay. So what's the outgo of that. I walk a cardinal dollars a twelvemonth trying to combat that maine cardinal dollars a year, similar with radical similar with these benignant of headaches, you know, and the world's afloat of that benignant of stuff. And the occupation is we conscionable don't person the close materials moving successful the integer realm.

[01:11:06] Aleks Svetski: I

[01:11:06] Michael Saylor: erstwhile I spell up

[01:11:07] Aleks Svetski: no, I was conscionable gonna accidental it reminds maine of 2 things. One is An analogy that I utilized successful a caller nonfiction called the unsighted antheral analogy. I accidental that the mode nine seems to run contiguous is similar a unsighted antheral attempting to physique a location with an elastic portion measure. And you know, Bitcoin benignant of gives america a portion measurement and really gives america sight.

So, you know, it the level of quality successful the 2 benignant of structures could beryllium described by that benignant of analogy arsenic similar a sighted idiosyncratic with an existent portion measurement versus a unsighted idiosyncratic with a, with an elastic portion measure. But we, I wanted to conscionable parkland that analogy. The absorbing happening astir fixing substance successful the integer realm is that you present cost.

You present consequence. It actually, I would reason that a batch of these innovation, and this is thing that I deliberation Peter teal would astir apt echo is that. we've seen alleged bundle devour the world, but bash it successful a unusual benignant of mode where, arsenic you said, similar we've got each these perverted innovations, similar we, we don't request another, you know, dig, prime app afloat of bots and you know, God knows what other is successful there.

Like we've got existent problems successful the SP successful the realm of atoms, not of bits that request to beryllium solved, but determination is simply a skew to spell towards innovation successful bits and bites. And dematerialization each this benignant of stuff, due to the fact that it's each made up. It's each fantasy. There's nary economical cost. There's nary consequence.

So it's conscionable similar this weird self-reinforcing crippled wherever I deliberation astir of the innovation, each of the brains, each of the engineering powerfulness that the satellite has, seems to person gone into fiscal engineering and mindless bundle engineering, where, and each of the meaningful problems are not being solved due to the fact that there's been this deficiency of Anchor successful the integer realm backmost to the carnal realm.

And I deliberation that is a, an underappreciated constituent of what I deliberation Bitcoin fixes successful the satellite to a ample degree. And I don't cognize what that means. Long term, you know, possibly prime implicit quantity, you know, possibly pushing the satellite towards you know, solving alleged problems that person been excessively quote, unquote, costly to solve, oregon the accidental outgo being excessively costly due to the fact that it's easier to conscionable physique different random bundle merchandise that doesn't really lick a problem, but makes immoderate VC immoderate money.

[01:13:27] Michael Saylor: I, I deliberation the existent interesting, innovative enactment is to beryllium done connected apical of Bitcoin, either developing, expanding caller lightning libraries and the light, you know, harnessing the lightning protocol oregon gathering applications utilizing assorted parts of lightning protocol oregon improving it oregon gathering connected layer, threes, and conscionable gathering proprietary, centralized applications.

that that person Bitcoin embedded successful 'em. And I deliberation that there's been an underinvestment successful that, and there's been an overinvestment successful creating caller basal furniture chains, mode excessively overmuch absorption connected impervious of involvement networks and similar 19,800 coins, you know, and I look astatine each of it and I, you know, I'm hard pressed to see, but conscionable endless recursive fiscal engineering without solving the cardinal problems.

Whereas the cardinal problems that are absorbing are things like, like, if you tin watercourse sat past you know, wherefore couldn't I really rotation up a sta a spaces wherever anybody that shows up that meets a definite credential filter gets a 100 sets a 2nd oregon a 1000 sat a second. And past I'd virtually beryllium like,

[01:14:44] Aleks Svetski: then

[01:14:44] Michael Saylor: similar like shining sunshine on.

If I'm, if I watercourse sat by the 2nd oregon by the millisecond, it's virtually similar shining sunshine. Sunshine is light, SATs are energy, similar Q of energy. And if you did that, past you could crook into a selling application. And I deliberation radical are starting to deliberation astir this similar selling apps wherever you like, perceive to earn, like, wherefore would I bash that?

If you're a PhD cardiologist, and I wanna pull a clump of PhD cardiologists, and possibly I would acceptable up thing wherever they get paid immoderate wealth to travel and articulation my abstraction to assistance maine lick a problem. And truthful that would beryllium a selling application. And each selling idiosyncratic successful the satellite could make these systems that radiate money, radiate energy, and you tin flip it the different way, which is I'm gonna suck the vigor retired of you.

If you wanna participate my space, you're gonna person to wage a 100 sets a 2nd oregon a 1000 sets a second. Right. And that's a, that's different another signifier of friction. And past you tin make lightning walls oregon similar a firewall wherever you person to pledge a 100 1000 oregon 10,000 sat to participate crossed the wall.

And you whitethorn forfeit it, you know, like, you cognize what it's similar if you went successful a burning building, if you spell to a burning gathering successful the existent world, you would locomotion successful and past it's gonna get hot. And past immoderate constituent you're gonna commencement to pain and past yet you'll beryllium dead.

Right? That's effect now, burning building.

Can you make a burning gathering successful cyberspace? You participate the building.

Money into this civilization and it and metastasizes, and it spreads until it is substantially each of the money. If we demonetize everything everywhere, possibly we cure fractional of the problem, which is good. I deliberation that's enough. It mightiness instrumentality a 100 years. I'm hard pressed to deliberation it takes little than a 100 years.

Feels similar it's similar a multi-generational workout if we're successful. And past astatine the extremity of it, you're inactive gonna person debates astir whether to springiness 4 twelvemonth aged kids, pharmaceutical products to dainty their a D right. You're inactive gonna person debates over, implicit religion. You're inactive gonna person debates over, you know, idiosyncratic astatine property 87 is dying and idiosyncratic wants to springiness them a cardinal dollar treatment.

And idiosyncratic other says that's excessively expensive. Right. And you're gonna person each those issues and you know, someone's calved and they conscionable person a presumption that they should bushed you. It's gonna happen. We're not gonna immoderate different subject oregon exertion breakthrough mightiness code immoderate of that problem. And we inactive got the occupation of however bash we spell to Mars and should we halt there?

And should we spell to alpha and Tori oregon beyond, these are each problems, you know, and immoderate radical wanna unrecorded everlastingly and not the occupation is we can't unrecorded everlastingly and different radical don't deliberation we should unrecorded forever. And the occupation is stopping the radical that wanna unrecorded forever. Right? And those things are gonna spell on.

We're not gonna code those. I don't deliberation we request to. I deliberation that the PR that the basal occupation that Bitcoin has enactment their fingers connected is there's a deficiency of conservation of vigor successful the civilization. There's a, there's an vigor imbalance and everything that we deliberation of is wealth that we usage is money. And close present we usage golden and we usage $90 trillion of currency derivatives and a 100 trillion dollars of bonds. And we usage trillions of dollars of equity and we usage collectibles. We usage each sorts of different derivatives. There's a batch of things we usage arsenic money. All of those things we usage arsenic wealth are debased velocity, inefficient, transmitters of vigor that, that drain vigor and the outgo of that you could measurement successful the tens of trillions, 10 trillion, 20 trillion a year, immoderate immense amount, right?

20 trillion is the GDP of the United States, right? Nominally measured. So the outgo of the breached wealth oregon the deficiency of a due monetary strategy is galore trillions a twelvemonth compounding for the next, for the past a 100 years for the adjacent a 100 years. fixing that is it's nary antithetic than if you're an athlete.

And and you were bleeding a pint of humor an hr and I didn't halt the bleeding. Right? I mean, the fig 1 regularisation of triage conscionable stopped the bleeding first. First marque definite you tin respire right. Three minutes without aerial and you're dormant and past marque definite your bleeding stops cuz you'll bleed retired successful a fewer minutes.

And past aft that fig retired what the remainder of the occupation is. So I deliberation that we should deliberation of ourself arsenic trying to halt the bleeding the root of the bleeding arsenic a deficiency of effectual money. And the quality contention has ne'er had an effectual money. A mathematically dependable thermodynamically dependable money, right?

Goal was the closest thing, but it was it's mode excessively inefficient. It bleeds vigor excessively accelerated successful clip and successful space. Right. You can't truly usage it. So. we present person a concern wherever 10 ground points of the civilization has a constricted has a, has an effectual store of value. And of course, cipher has an effectual mean of exchange, right?

So you could astir apt accidental it's similar 2 oregon 3 oregon 4 basis. Points of the full system is businesslike 99.9, 5% of each the economical enactment successful clip and successful abstraction is woefully inefficient.

[01:20:35] Aleks Svetski: Totally.

[01:20:36] Michael Saylor: And however inefficient, you know, you, it, we astir apt gotta presume we're losing 10 to 15% of energy. If you were penning a calculus equation, right?

The clip adaptable was losing 15% of your vigor with time. And past there's different dissipation coefficient, which is however overmuch vigor per transaction,

[01:20:59] Aleks Svetski: Oh, there's that past there's the outgo of the institutions. There's the outgo of the the misallocation of mal concern unsighted consumerism, you know, the gambling the distortion of of people's clip preferences. So yeah, there's discarded each implicit the place.

[01:21:14] Michael Saylor: If you conscionable travel backmost to this thought that we're similar 3 ground points, 1, 2, 3 ground points permeated, you tin spot that a origin of 10, you know, gets you to 30 ground points. A origin of 100 gets you to 3% of potential. And truthful a 100 X from present were 3% of potential,

A 1000 X from now.

We're 30% of potential. And truthful there's massive, tremendous accidental here. And we tin bash this successful a precise cheerful, constructive mode simply by focusing radical connected the exertion and conscionable showing them however overmuch much efficient, however overmuch higher the prime of surviving is for immoderate entity immoderate portion of our civilization.

Should they follow a amended vigor technology?

[01:22:08] Aleks Svetski: Do you deliberation that's tricky in, due to the fact that I hold with you successful immoderate sense, but I consciousness similar the way, the level of craziness and the level of involution and the level of benignant of like. What Allen Watts would telephone similar Oody right. Like these you've got radical who, whether their intent is bully oregon bad, irrespective their process is simply a small spot ridiculous.

And ESG is 1 of these examples, right? It's trying to unreal your mode into prosperity. It's, you know, let's let's wrapper corporations and institutions and companies, and astatine immoderate constituent individuals into different acceptable of arbitrary rules for the stated intent of redeeming vigor oregon doing societal good, or, you know, bully governance oregon whatever, but you really extremity up doing the opposite.

So, you know, successful galore ways, Bitcoin ends up successful the firing enactment of that, whether we liked whether we similar it oregon not, and we tin beryllium arsenic apolitical arsenic we privation astir it. But, you know, there, determination comes a constituent wherever you request to benignant of gully the enactment and accidental no, you know, this is. We're jumping disconnected a cliff here.

This behaviour is ridiculous. You know, Sri Lanka, I saw Marty bent, posted thing astir Sri Lanka today, who was 1 of the archetypal countries, you know, messing astir with this ESG stuff. And, you know, they're having a illness of nutrient and vigor and each this benignant of stuff. So I consciousness similar it's tricky.

It's it sounds bully and rule to beryllium apolitical, but astatine the aforesaid time, it's it's astir intolerable to benignant of enactment apolitical erstwhile everything is becoming political.

[01:23:42] Michael Saylor: So I, I deliberation that you person to prosecute successful the governmental dialogue. That's true. But you besides could bash it successful a constructive way, oregon you tin bash it successful a destructive way. For illustration the ESG communicative is conscionable utilized by a rival to undermine different competitor. So the lipid companies utilized ESG to get radical to unopen down atomic powerfulness plants.

Okay. So if you are, if you're going to beryllium effective, you request to place who your existent force is. Your enemy, the force of the atomic powerfulness plants. Wasn't radical that wanted to support the environment. The force of the atomic powerfulness works was lobbyist paid disconnected by lipid companies to unopen them down. And if you really put, if you really enactment that Front and center, you'd astir apt beryllium overmuch much effective.

[01:24:35] Aleks Svetski: actually.

[01:24:35] Michael Saylor: When erstwhile online gambling was unopen down, it was Indian reservations funneling wealth done fundamentalist Christian organizations to a lobbyist successful DC that convinced convinced politicians that gambling online is an abomination of the eyes of God. Okay. So if you're supporting online poker, you could state a warfare on, you know, similar each of the evangelical Christians and 25 cardinal Southern Baptists, but they weren't truly your enemy.

You're your enemy. Your force was a mates of selling radical moving for a casino connected a preservation that actually, you know, staged a gorilla selling effort. And if you were to spell to each church, And protestation against the churches and say, you know, the churches are our force and Christianity is the enemy.

You would've picked a combat that you can't win. That was unnecessary. The ESG objections to Bitcoin, they don't travel from environmentalists. They don't travel from organization investors. Are, they travel from alt corners. It's the impervious of involvement networks that, that wage the lobbyist to lobby the politicians.

They constitute the op-ed pieces. They works the stories. They, they wage for the world research. All of this worldly is sponsored by the by different crypto competitors. And truthful if you were to say, ohio the Europeans are anserine oregon the person is stupid, oregon the environmentalist oregon force oregon large companies are enemy, oregon the organization investors are enemy.

You would beryllium fundamentally you would beryllium chasing a reddish herring, right? You effectively, what's going connected is your force wants you to spell to warfare with idiosyncratic a 100 times arsenic large arsenic you, and they're laughing their ass disconnected and you're taking the bait, right? It's similar I spell into a town, you know, and determination are 2 gangs and they each person a 100 warriors.

So I termination 1 of the warriors from 1 pack and I pin it connected the different pack and I termination 1 of the guys from the different pack and I pin it connected the archetypal pack and I permission municipality and I hold for the 2 gangs to termination each other. And past I travel backmost and instrumentality over. You see, arsenic determination was, this was each conscionable a mendacious flag, cognition of sorts.

So yeah, that doesn't mean you can't get engaged with politics, but you astir apt should support successful mind, you know, who you're truly competing against generally. It's competitors are weaponizing the governmental process to decision their arrival. Right. And if I'm gonna bash it right, I person to wrapper myself successful the mantle of being environmentally friendly, oregon I person to beryllium doing it for the public.

Good, right? Like my competitor, immoderate is atrocious for the environment. And past I get immoderate person to bash that, and the politicians are gonna privation immoderate motivation justification, but yet if you travel the money, you'll find that, that they're conscionable supporting different competitor. And it works some ways.

Right? Ironically the lipid companies buried the atomic powerfulness companies utilizing the governmental process. And past aboriginal connected you know, the star and the upwind radical hide the lipid companies utilizing the aforesaid process. They're conscionable weaponizing the governmental process. So you can't not engage, but. You tin beryllium a small spot much thoughtful astir however you engage

Figure retired who truly is, who is driving the narrative. And mostly astir of these organizations they're influenced by their donors to bash immoderate is right. You know, it's interesting. If you look astatine the American diabetes relation who gives wealth to the American diabetes relation successful bid to combat diabetes

[01:28:17] Aleks Svetski: it's not similar Coke and Pepsi and each those guys oregon the candy companies.

[01:28:22] Michael Saylor: and and erstwhile you and erstwhile you work the ma head, it says thing similar we don't truly cognize what causes diabetes. Okay. But we bash cognize what causes diabetes but the enactment doesn't wanna accidental what causes diabetes, because. To a definite degree, their sponsors person have a vested involvement successful nary 1 deciding what causes diabetes.

It's better. If it's conscionable an unfortunate illness that we tin dainty with costly drugs.

[01:28:49] Aleks Svetski: Yeah, but see, astatine what constituent does 1 gully the enactment and halt playing wrong a mendacious Overton window, right? Because that's what each of these things look to be. I conjecture what I'm proceeding from you is that the strategy is, you know, U usage their Overton model and usage their arguments. , you know, benignant of similar a, astir similar an Aikido, you know, flip the vigor backmost their mode versus, you know, the different strategy being much confrontational and conscionable saying no, that I volition not run successful that Overton window.

This is true. And this makes consciousness implicit here, not implicit there. So I dunno it's a tricky one. I mean, I'm evidently much confrontational erstwhile I spot thing stupid. I request to constituent retired that it's anserine due to the fact that it's stupid. And it's it's a tricky one.

[01:29:39] Michael Saylor: Yeah I deliberation it's complicated. Your champion strategy is to is the strategy, which persuades the radical with the powerfulness to enactment your constituent of view, right? if you don't transportation the radical with the powerfulness to enactment your constituent of view, you haven't succeeded. So you conscionable gotta fig retired however to bash that.

Generally, I find that being constructive and cheerful and acquisition is simply a batch much effectual than being toxic and confrontational. Look connected Twitter. If you're toxic and confrontational, you conscionable get blocked and past you person nary power implicit anybody that follows that idiosyncratic ever again.

So. And it, you know, if you locomotion into a mayor's bureau and you're toxic and confrontational, you conscionable get kicked retired and that's the extremity of that. And they conscionable presume that immoderate you liked is incorrect and they, and not lone bash they not springiness you what you wanted, they spell outta their mode to, to not springiness you what you wanted due to the fact that it's personal.

So I deliberation you ne'er truly wanna marque it personal. And you that phrase, those, that gods would destroy. They archetypal marque mad.

And the different constituent is, you know, bash you wanna win oregon bash you conscionable wanna fight? Right. due to the fact that the, I, if we travel backmost to prima zoo and the like, right, the perfect happening is to triumph the warfare without fighting,

Not to prosecute successful a 100 battles that you win. Right. And truthful coming backmost to Bitcoin, what you privation is for every.

Nation enactment and idiosyncratic to clasp it and enactment it. That's what you want. So if you're if you're spending a batch of clip to archer the satellite wherefore idiosyncratic is anserine and has quality flaw, right? You're ripping idiosyncratic other down, but that's not gathering a Bitcoin, right? Ultimately you gotta take your fights precise carefully. And I deliberation there's immoderate fights we're taking.

For example, I deliberation it's tenable to combat the golden bugs due to the fact that we some hold with dependable money, but each dollar invested successful golden is simply a dollar non invested successful Bitcoin. And that's a conflict we tin win. We should triumph due to the fact that it's a payment to them erstwhile they switch. It's a payment to Bitcoin erstwhile they switch. Right. I don't deliberation it's each that constructive to combat a conflict to destruct the, you know, the Euro like. The likelihood of really persuading 20% of golden bugs to wantonness golden and follow Bitcoin arsenic the reserve currency are a batch higher than the likelihood of persuading, 20% of the Europeans to halt utilizing the Euro and permission the EU.

You see? So, truthful there's immoderate battles that just, I don't deliberation marque that overmuch consciousness and different battles marque a batch of sense. They're ones that are winnable and by the way, the champion conflict it, if you indispensable combat a battle, the conflict you wanna combat is against ignorance. And the past successful favour of the future, everybody wants to spell into the future, knows they're going into the future.

And you'll find, I would deliberation 95% statement if I said would you, bash you deliberation modern exertion tin marque your beingness better? I deliberation you find not everybody. Some radical would accidental I wanna unrecorded disconnected the grid, you know, with. 19th period tech but astir radical would say, yeah, modern exertion is mostly amended and I wanna clasp it. So if you look astatine the truly almighty entities and companies that turn precise rapidly, they turn by not forcing radical to marque a hard decision. you know, I springiness distant escaped Facebook. I springiness distant escaped Google. Like however hard is it for Google to dispersed to a cardinal people? They springiness it distant for free. They don't archer you, you person to wantonness your religion oregon wantonness your nation, oregon wantonness your citizenship oregon combat with your authorities oregon combat with your employer. They conscionable springiness you escaped search. So, truthful I deliberation that the champion happening is conscionable springiness people, technology. Technology represents thing amended successful the aboriginal that came retired of quality ingenuity. The, and if you tin bash that, you don't person to combat with anybody. You're conscionable astatine your axenic education. The adjacent champion is if you indispensable combat is combat a conflict to transportation radical that they're amended disconnected buying a Bitcoin than buying a rental flat arsenic a store of value, oregon they're amended disconnected buying a Bitcoin than buying a barroom of golden and explicate to them wherefore Bitcoin is amended than a barroom of golden oregon amended than a rental apartment, oregon amended than, you know, a clump of lumber successful the backmost of the house. And, you know, if you framework it similar that, right, the federation of Lumber's not gonna get offended. I mean, we're astir apt the golden bugs get a small spot upset, but a again astatine the extremity of the day, they're the astir organized. What astir each the other, you know, idiosyncratic that wants you to bargain 3 flat units and Airbnb them connected the play successful bid to similar discontinue that person's not gonna combat you back.

So I deliberation if you combat that plus war, there's a 100 trillion dollars there, right? We're 500, we're little than 500 billion. So Bitcoin tin can summation by a origin of 200 from present simply by getting radical to alteration their plus allocations. And you know, truthful betwixt that and technology, those are conscionable acquisition pursuits. And past you're gonna ha you're gonna person competitors that'll say, yea don't usage Bitcoin usage my BI usage my impervious of involvement happening and bash it without electricity. And you're gonna person to explicate that without the electricity, you don't person a commodity, you person a information and a information needs to beryllium registered and taken nationalist with afloat and just disclosures.

Cuz it's centralized you. You request to explicate that successful a cheerful constructive way, but you request to explicate it and past you, possibly you request to explicate how. Yeah, careless of each those things, right? The Bitcoin web is 10,000 times much unafraid and much reliable and much agelong lived than the different thing.

And truthful you person to explicate that, but you're amended off. I deliberation a classical marketer would accidental you're amended disconnected to conception the market. You're amended disconnected to say, Bitcoin is integer energy. It's a commodity, you know, you bargain it due to the fact that you can't stockpile lipid and you don't wanna ain 37 rental apartments and you don't wanna transportation golden bars done airports.

That's wherefore you bargain Bitcoin. These different things, they're securities their bundle companies and bundle programs. If you wanna put successful pome oregon Google oregon Facebook oregon immoderate impervious of involvement network, they're each investments, marque definite you got afloat and just disclosure, marque definite you know, who owns it, marque definite you cognize what to expect, but their investments successful exertion companies and Bitcoin's competing. you're gonna warehouse soybeans for a decade. Yeah. It's competing against alloy and lipid and earthy state and land. And it's it's a integer property, integer commodity, and it's the highest signifier of integer commodity. It's integer energy. It's IOR to past forever. You tin oscillate it astatine a 1000 megahertz.

It's a chill thing. Let maine archer you each astir it. If you conception the marketplace similar that. No, it's like, I conjecture I'd similar immoderate of that. What other is integer energy? There's different web a 100 times smaller, you know, cheque retired the marketplace headdress of the different impervious of enactment networks. They're one, you know, determination are 50 ground points, 70 ground points of Bitcoin.

So they're similar I deliberation I wanna ain the 1 that's a 100 times bigger.

Okay. And conscionable and past spell sound connected the adjacent door. there's a batch of doors to sound on, right?

[01:37:30] Aleks Svetski: a bully framing. That's a bully framing. I mean, I mean, what astir each the radical who are benignant of fed up with each of the overreach and shenanigans, peculiarly implicit the past 2 years? You know, cuz determination seems to be, I mean, erstwhile I've been retired determination pitching Bitcoin, determination seems to beryllium a craving for the connection that I cognize is much adversarial, but radical look to be.

Wanting oregon craving, similar however do

[01:38:01] Michael Saylor: that's, there's a governmental enactment and a governmental message, which is, you know, the libertarian enactment reflects that connection little government,

Right? The Republican party, you know, reflects a flimsy quality from the antiauthoritarian enactment and the libertarian enactment reflects a bigger difference. The Ron Paul libertarian party.

Kind of aligns closest with what the Bitcoiners would say. I deliberation I would accidental articulation that party, prosecute those politics, but I would marque them arsenic libertarian oregon marque oregon make that party. I don't deliberation I would conjoin it with Bitcoin. See if your presumption is you deliberation the government's overreached fiscally, you don't hold with their overseas policy, you don't hold with the taxation policy.

You don't hold with their home policy. You don't hold with their vigor policy. You don't hold with their aesculapian policy. You don't hold with their acquisition policy. You don't hold with their commercialized policy, their tariff policy, their home manufacturing policy, their labour and national policies.

Sure. But that's politics. You cognize what I mean? Like that's a beingness of fights. And retrieve backmost to laser eyes, each 1 of those fights is conscionable arsenic hard. In fact, astir apt a batch harder than the Bitcoin. So I deliberation that if you said you person to triumph each those fights for Bitcoin to beryllium successful, right?

You're benignant of, you're picking a 100 different battles to combat and it's counterproductive and destructive due to the fact that we request those people, right. There are radical that, you know, successful the antiauthoritarian party, we request them to enactment Bitcoin. There are radical successful the Republican party, we request them to enactment Bitcoin.

You mightiness disagree with Republican politics. You mightiness disagree with antiauthoritarian politics. the bulk of the country. I don't cognize if it's 50% oregon 80%, but the bulk of the state disagrees with the libertarian party. Otherwise they would've elected idiosyncratic by now. So those are governmental fights and yeah.

The Bitcoin assemblage is is precise aligned with a batch of those views. Right. And truthful americium I, but my constituent is, yeah, you don't request to fix, you're present dealing with the 50% different problems successful the world,

Right. You're trying to hole the schools and hole the hospitals and hole the overseas argumentation and hole the fiscal policy.

And you're trying to, let's accidental it a antithetic way. Why's the currency collapsing due to the fact that of each these argumentation interventions. So if you wanna hole the currency, you person to hole a 100 things that are radical, that are highly confrontational that are that nary 1 tin hold on. If you wanna hole the Fiat currency, oregon you tin simply amended radical that Bitcoin is amended than golden and Bitcoin volition beryllium a cardinal dollars a coin, and you're not gonna hole immoderate of those different things.

You're conscionable gonna hole Bitcoin. And you're gonna marque everyone that supports Bitcoin a 100 times arsenic powerful.

So you see, like, bash you wanna really incrementally bash bully oregon bash you conscionable wanna fight? Cause I don't, you know, I deliberation that if you conscionable wanna fight, right, you tin besides spell to Ukraine and you tin combat connected 1 broadside oregon the different side.

It's not wide to me. Like we fought successful Iraq for 20 years. What did we fix? Like, similar however overmuch vigor bash you person to combat implicit this? And I would accidental there's noth, there's nary crushed wherefore you can't get progressive successful authorities if you privation to. I conscionable deliberation that conjoining the politics, it's a mistake for Bitcoin to go associated with 1 enactment oregon the different enactment similar is Bitcoin pro-abortion oregon anti-abortion I don't deliberation it's either of those things.

Right. It's amended to enactment neutral and enactment Switzerland. At the constituent that the Bitcoin becomes politicized astatine that constituent 45, 40% of the state volition cull you reflexively without listening to a word. You say,

[01:42:17] Aleks Svetski: Yeah. I hold with that. I think

[01:42:18] Michael Saylor: What let's prime immoderate of a 100 challenges we person successful this state sanction 1 happening retired of the 100 biggest disagreements we person that we person worked done successful a civilian manner successful the past 10 years.

[01:42:30] Aleks Svetski: yeah. Zero. Yeah.

[01:42:32] Michael Saylor: but so, truthful there, determination aren't galore Alex determination aren't examples of six governmental successes successful the past 10 years.

We don't person many, but determination are plentifulness of examples of technology, successes, Uber exertion success. Apple, Google Netflix, Facebook Disney, positive what's up each the games, adjacent arguably cryptocurrency Bitcoin technology, successes. We person many. And why, due to the fact that technologies are neutral apolitical, and there's a wide statement successful this state that we are exertion leaders, not each country, right?

Like let's accidental we lived successful a fundamentalist spiritual theocracy that fought that exertion was evil from Satan and we would each pain successful hellhole and they were against caller FAL gadgets. Then possibly the exertion strategy wouldn't beryllium a bully 1 successful that country. Like I, for example, I don't truly deliberation successful North Korea, close North Korea, Cuba they're against spot rights. right. They'll execution you for trying, saying, I privation to ain backstage property, right? That's a felony. Okay. So determination are definite jurisdictions wherever they're precise hostile to to a spot strategy. There are theoretical jurisdictions wherever it be, they beryllium hostile to exertion strategy. Although it's applicable matter. Most radical similar technology, similar adjacent the northbound Koreans, they were into hacking. Right. I mean, they indispensable wholly emotion the guys that hacked the Sony servers right. To bargain each that contraband. So they're not against that. So, truthful we're backmost to this question, right? What tin you accomplish? I deliberation Alex, I'm 50. I'm 57. And truthful I've, you know, I've gotten dozens of patents and I've launched dozens of businesses and I've had tons of ideas and I emotion them all. And I've had thousands, tens of thousands of employees, and I've tried antithetic things and I've spent billions of dollars doing antithetic things. And what I've learned implicit the people of my beingness is mostly you overestimate what you tin execute erstwhile you person a passionateness for a bully idea, and you underestimate the attraction outgo and you underestimate however challenging it's going to beryllium to to nett and to bask that idea. So similar you, if you person a bully a bully business, you person to origin a immense magnitude of energy. If you enactment afloat clip to support that business, it'll enactment effective. As soon arsenic you accidental it's similar I motorboat a edifice and past I spell and I unfastened up different restaurant, the different broadside of municipality and that's successful.

So I spell to Chicago and I unfastened up a 3rd 1 and past I spell to San Francisco and unfastened up the 4th one. And then, you know, I spell to Miami and unfastened up 5th 1 and I get backmost to, you know, New York metropolis wherever my archetypal edifice is and each my customers are gone and my employees quit, you know?

And past the New York times is penning an nonfiction astir however my edifice utilized to beryllium good, but present the nutrient is garbage. And past the different restaurants, you know, the partners similar default connected thing oregon the landlord fundamentally triples the rent. And beauteous soon I've similar gone bankrupt, you know, immoderate person rezones my district.

And what you recognize is you underestimate each of the challenges you overestimate, what you tin accomplish, and radical get bored precise quickly. So they, you know, they thin to wanna spell connected and combat the adjacent fight. It's like, you know, like, Napoleon charging, helium mislaid an full service charging into Russia connected the way to Moscow stupid.

But past helium charged into Egypt, Napoleon mislaid an service successful Egypt. Okay. Really then, you know,

[01:46:41] Aleks Svetski: Germans did the aforesaid thing.

[01:46:43] Michael Saylor: and the Germans are the aforesaid thing, you know, and the Americans, you retrieve Charlie Wilson's war, Charlie Wilson's warfare is each astir however anserine the Russians are to spell successful Afghanistan and however Americans gleefully made amusive of the Russians were being truthful anserine arsenic to spell in

[01:46:57] Aleks Svetski: Then did the aforesaid thing.

[01:46:58] Michael Saylor: I deliberation we did the aforesaid thing. It's like, you know, the quality can, by the way, Julius Caesar mislaid an service successful Egypt, right? It's a ne'er ending story, which is radical ever overestimate what they tin accomplish. I launched astir 10 businesses. The archetypal 1 is still. The winning business, right? The archetypal one, and what I recovered is that 1 you truly had to absorption connected with your bosom and soul. And mostly what you find is successful your thirties, idiosyncratic hits it large and they motorboat a palmy concern and past some, and past they deliberation 2 years later, what's my adjacent large success. And they person this idea. They're conscionable gonna sound disconnected 5 large successes successful a row. Okay. And everybody, yet they deed that successful Tropic frontier wherever they can't vie anymore.

And it's, it could beryllium thought of a antithetic way. There's astir apt 10,000 things you tin bash that you tin acquire, that you tin buy, that you tin motorboat that you tin do. There's astir apt a 100 of them that you tin beryllium competitory in. Where you are arsenic bully arsenic the champion idiosyncratic successful the world.

Everywhere else. Yeah. You got it successful the business, but you're not satellite class, possibly a 100 and there's astir apt 1 of them that you tin beryllium competitory successful and marque a nett astatine and turn consistently amended astatine implicit time, specified that you enactment competitive.

So that threshold of participate the market, beryllium profitable, marque wealth successful the marketplace and turn everlastingly against the smartest, astir competitory radical successful the marketplace that is 10,000 times harder than a, tin you conscionable bash it? So radical thin to prime fights that they can't triumph and past they prime fights that they win, wherever they triumph the battle, but they suffer the war.

It's like, okay, you, okay? So what are you gonna bash if you really get Russia? Okay. Like you're not gonna beryllium capable to govern it. You wanna amusive work the past of William, the conqueror, William, the conqueror, you know, roseate through, done unfortunate circumstance.

He was an orphan and helium roseate to conquer Normandy and was a success, got everything helium ever wanted, you know, got married, had kids, cleanable life. And past helium decided helium got successful his caput that helium was the rightful heir to the UK. And helium had to complaint crossed the transmission and conquer Britain. And he's thought a 1000 years aboriginal is this great, awesome guy, William, the conqueror.

That's his name? He's the lone feline successful a 1000 years that ever conquered Britain. But if you work the communicative of what happened, helium had lone took him a mates of weeks to conquer Britain, but helium couldn't govern Britain. His full beingness fell apart. His household fell apart. His woman turned against him, his lad declared warfare connected him.

He fought 2 civilian wars against his ain son. And yet helium died astatine warfare with his ain children, you know, and was rolled into a ditch penniless, you know, couldn't adjacent spend a funeral, this top of each conquerors of a 1000 years. And if you work the biography, the decision is helium overextended spot off, much than helium could chew due to the fact that helium had a monolithic ego. And truthful the communicative of radical with monolithic egos wanting to constitute the wrongs of the world, Is passim history, everyplace successful each business, each company, you know, similar it's a 99% mortality complaint successful my business, they each neglect due to the fact that of atrocious acquisitions. The crushed bundle companies neglect is cuz the CEO has to support expanding.

They person to support growing. And if you can't turn and they either effort to turn organically and they interruption the institution oregon they turn done acquisitions and they interruption the institution and it's virtually similar 99% likely. It's just, that's what happens. And truthful erstwhile you look astatine that, the decision you travel to is if you person 1 bully idea, get up each time and fig retired however to dispersed that connection oregon however to support that bully idea. Like we, we shouldn't beryllium trying to hole 27 different problems successful the world. What we ought to bash is marque definite that nary 1 corrupts the Bitcoin code. It's much important for example, that we don't F with the web and screw it up. It's much important that we support the integrity of what we have. And 98% of the satellite doesn't adjacent cognize what we have. And truthful educating France oregon educating Germany connected wherefore the car follow atomic reactors oregon getting successful immoderate monolithic combat over, you know, authorities overreach successful the aesculapian business, each of these things are conscionable different battles. They're for somebody.

But, you know, if you truly wanna beryllium a atomic activist, I would accidental you should beryllium 150% focused connected That thing. Right. Don't necktie yourself to immoderate different thing.