I don't know his background, his experience.
You're the ageist.
I don't - I don't know anything about him, so I'm not - all right, I think he's got no professional background in crypto.
I mean, that - yeah, I mean, it's not helping you. That doesn't help.
I want to be with you on this.
Let's go.
Hello, hello, hello.
Yo, welcome back, Zakk.
Thank you.
Missed last week.
You didn't though, did you?
No, only when you started talking about quantum computers.
Oh yeah, I was looking to my right to see if you could dig me out of a hole, but you weren't there. Instead, Molly was there with a face.
God, I'm in trouble.
Hey Molly, explain quantum computing.
Basically -
Um, yeah, no Molly this week.
Welcome back.
Episode 163.
Agenda this week:
Updates on the Bitcoin Act
Russian Civic Chamber proposes - what does it propose? - a government cryptocurrency fund from seized assets
Eric Trump joining MetaPlanet's board of advisers
Crypto.com and the Trump family
US states and local politics
On the Isle of Man - MHK update.
That's the big news.
In we go. It's worth waiting for that one.
Right, let's crack on then. What's the price?
$87,000 nearly on the dot.
Mhm. Was it lower last episode?
I would say it was lower - 87, 82 -
Yeah, oh yeah.
This is the highest - 88 - we got to yesterday.
It's like the highest in a month nearly, I think.
Mhm. We kind of had the low liquidity Sunday pump, and then it hasn't kind of gone back down, right?
Yeah, yesterday was a good movement and then slowly ground and had a little bit of a dip overnight.
Yeah, I had some people mention to me, "Well, Bitcoin's dipping, isn't it?"
I was like - and it was still in - I think it was 82 at the time -
I was like, "It's at 82 - take that all day long."
Jesus.
I think that's the mentality. To me, two years ago, three years ago, four years ago, five years ago -
the mentality that people are treating 80K like a dip is kind of like -
There you go.
You just love it - if you're the Bitcoin guy in the group, they love it when it's down, don't they?
You get told about it.
They're very quiet when it's going up.
Oh yeah, you never get that.
You just get, "Oh, see? It's gone down."
Yeah, I've stopped saying when it goes up.
I never say anything to anyone.
Do you not?
Oh, he gloats.
I whip out my copy of the 200-day moving average chart and just say, "Look, son, where are we here?"
Yeah, I've just got to a point where I just nod and agree -
Well, not agree, I just laugh.
I don't -
You probably message people you haven't talked to in years when there's a pump.
Call them out.
I'll make a little list of everyone that's told me that it's down.
This ex-girlfriend from high school.
Literally a girlfriend at high school.
Nice one.
And I just literally comment -
Message everyone: "Hey."
Anyway, it's doing what it's doing.
Um, yeah, I think -
I think there's going to be some news today that might impact some price movements.
What - don't be that guy. Tell us what it is.
I can't tell you what it is.
Right, don't say it then.
I just did.
There's going to be some news in the future that might impact the price -
Today.
Not in the future - today.
Right. The date is today, right?
20 - what is it? 20th?
Mhm.
Okay, nice one.
There's going to be some news.
What - agenda com -
Well, there's news every day technically.
Is it in the bus?
Actually, might be useful for the price.
Right. Keep us moving then, Z. You got -
Yeah, yeah, we're going.
Congressman Nick says the likelihood of passing the Bitcoin Act - of buying 1 million BTC - is growing.
Great.
I went - immediately when I saw this - went on ChatGPT and tried to find the congressman that was saying the opposite, just because I thought we need -
No, we need some like - the counter argument.
Was there a congressman saying that?
No. On ChatGPT I literally asked it and they wouldn't name the congressman.
And then it did mention there was some congressman that's, you know, slightly sceptical about the government's involvement -
It didn't name them.
How many congressmen are there?
Why, you trying to get a poll of them all?
That's what I'm - just -
There's like 12 that were supporting it already.
Is there?
You need to see it as a whole, don't you?
It's all well and good seeing piecemeal support for it...