WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:01.300 That was actually a stale attack. 00:01.560 --> 00:03.620 If you're gonna speak, you see it's gotta go up, right? 00:04.420 --> 00:07.500 And I have a text there, and then X happened 00:07.810 --> 00:11.200 on August 24th, 2019. 00:11.840 --> 00:14.140 Does anyone here know what happened on that day? 00:14.500 --> 00:16.780 0.02 X of our footprint, do you get it? 00:17.100 --> 00:17.420 Anyone? 00:18.840 --> 00:21.520 One once, twice. 00:22.900 --> 00:25.800 On that day, the White House Market was created. 00:26.600 --> 00:29.400 White House Market will become the large start then 00:29.400 --> 00:31.880 in the world, and it was Monero only. 00:33.640 --> 00:34.520 There it is. 00:35.860 --> 00:37.940 You used the operating or working bad. 00:39.840 --> 00:41.880 Yeah, I had to speak with Monero, Monero. 00:42.400 --> 00:45.060 And what they had to suck was that, hey, 00:45.380 --> 00:47.780 but you had to keep Bitcoin pretty. 00:47.900 --> 00:49.340 It's much better, much better. 00:49.740 --> 00:50.740 Oh, see, and they had made it, 00:50.740 --> 00:52.440 and they had made it toward PGD. 00:53.880 --> 00:57.500 PGD was like, you would click your message 00:57.500 --> 00:59.340 and you'd be able to store it in the site. 00:59.620 --> 01:00.520 There's a little mess. 01:00.920 --> 01:02.660 So, well, it's definitely a little mess. 01:03.020 --> 01:04.900 So, well, it's definitely a little mess. 01:05.280 --> 01:06.760 Parallel though, because we think about it, 01:07.100 --> 01:08.920 it's the guy who created the site, he's outlawed. 01:09.900 --> 01:11.860 It's the guy who created the site, he's outlawed. 01:12.000 --> 01:14.440 He's outlawed, he's outlawed, he's outlawed, he's outlawed. 01:14.660 --> 01:16.920 Compare that to, you know, Ron Wilberts. 01:17.440 --> 01:18.680 You get bad offset. 01:19.440 --> 01:22.740 Sure, he blew up, but everyone knows who he is. 01:23.680 --> 01:25.620 It's kind of like comparing Bitcoin to Monero, 01:25.980 --> 01:28.840 where Monero is very subtle, it's in the weeds, 01:29.280 --> 01:30.400 it's not trying to get attention, 01:31.000 --> 01:32.940 whereas Bitcoin, you know, obviously, 01:33.440 --> 01:34.660 it has a lot of attention. 01:35.760 --> 01:36.740 And yeah, I mean, the creator, 01:36.840 --> 01:37.960 he could be in this room right now. 01:38.760 --> 01:41.200 I don't know, maybe two, maybe three. 01:41.760 --> 01:43.560 And, all right, so here are the large, 01:43.600 --> 01:44.720 darkened markets today. 01:45.680 --> 01:48.960 As you can see, mostly Monero only, 01:49.060 --> 01:50.720 there is a Monero slash Bitcoin. 01:51.700 --> 01:53.860 It's still used, Bitcoin's still used, 01:53.860 --> 01:56.500 it's still used to the liquidity, obviously. 01:56.860 --> 02:00.260 Also, multi-sig, multi-sig is just for stabilizations, 02:00.420 --> 02:01.620 because people can use Monero. 02:02.160 --> 02:05.760 Is that kind of, yeah, I do see that 02:05.760 --> 02:07.460 as being part of the reason why Monero 02:07.460 --> 02:09.520 isn't like, pumping as much, for sure. 02:09.840 --> 02:11.060 But like, you have to understand that, 02:11.120 --> 02:12.500 obviously, there's a lot of people here 02:12.500 --> 02:14.040 who hold Monero as an investment. 02:14.520 --> 02:16.320 And I don't think that's really gonna change at all. 02:16.720 --> 02:18.620 My point with that graph was more so that 02:18.620 --> 02:20.440 after the creation of White House Market, 02:20.440 --> 02:24.020 and after the influx of darkened markets 02:24.020 --> 02:26.600 for Monero, transactions just started to go up. 02:27.180 --> 02:29.340 And I do, I think there's a correlation there. 02:29.580 --> 02:31.760 Not saying that all Monero people 02:31.760 --> 02:33.240 are buying drugs on the internet. 02:33.560 --> 02:35.060 I'm saying though, that like, 02:35.680 --> 02:37.420 it has an influence with all of SQL. 02:37.940 --> 02:39.920 Yeah, this person, using Monero, 02:40.100 --> 02:41.760 then, you know, four other people will, 02:41.820 --> 02:43.500 it's like the multiplier, I think it's more, 02:44.100 --> 02:45.180 so I see that playing out. 02:46.660 --> 02:49.380 And what real privacy looks like in a world 02:49.380 --> 02:52.700 that's rapidly forgetting what it means to be free. 02:53.060 --> 02:55.560 Monero has become one of the most misunderstood 02:55.560 --> 02:58.340 and underestimated projects in crypto. 02:58.760 --> 03:02.260 It's been delisted, censored, labeled as dangerous. 03:02.700 --> 03:04.340 And yet, it keeps going. 03:04.920 --> 03:08.220 Quietly, psychological effects of constant surveillance. 03:08.520 --> 03:10.740 It found that people who lack privacy 03:10.740 --> 03:13.440 tend to suffer higher stress, more anxiety, 03:13.860 --> 03:15.620 and lower cognitive function. 03:16.200 --> 03:18.840 Why? Because when every move is watched, 03:18.840 --> 03:21.720 people no longer feel free to be themselves. 03:22.100 --> 03:23.060 Now, consider this. 03:23.340 --> 03:26.340 In 2024, Pew Research has found that 03:26.340 --> 03:28.220 it's the people that the Americans said 03:28.220 --> 03:31.480 they want to do more to protect their personal data online. 03:31.820 --> 03:32.800 Not because they're criminals, 03:33.260 --> 03:35.600 but because people instinctively understand 03:35.600 --> 03:38.880 the value of control, control over their online 03:39.200 --> 03:40.360 and over their own. 03:40.740 --> 03:43.580 That incident is now under threat. 03:43.880 --> 03:45.120 Governments across the globe 03:45.120 --> 03:46.520 are ramping up surveillance. 03:46.960 --> 03:50.180 In the UK, Apple was forced to partially remove 03:50.180 --> 03:51.260 end-to-end encryption. 03:51.700 --> 03:53.340 And in the EU, lawmakers are pushing 03:53.340 --> 03:55.000 for bans on privacy coins, 03:55.120 --> 03:57.820 labeling tools like Monero as threats 03:58.320 --> 03:59.500 instead of protection. 04:00.340 --> 04:03.200 Losing it is, and if that makes you uncomfortable, 04:03.880 --> 04:06.740 it should, because the world is creeping 04:06.740 --> 04:09.040 toward a model where having a privacy 04:09.040 --> 04:10.820 is seen as suspicious, 04:11.040 --> 04:14.380 when in fact it should be seen as standard. 04:14.380 --> 04:17.680 This is the context in which Monero exists. 04:18.280 --> 04:20.940 It's not just a coin, it's not just a network, 04:21.360 --> 04:23.960 it's a response to a world that's becoming 04:23.960 --> 04:27.440 increasingly hostile to the most basic of freedoms. 04:27.880 --> 04:30.320 The right to keep your business your own. 04:30.580 --> 04:32.100 Let's talk about Monero itself 04:32.100 --> 04:35.440 and what sets it apart in a sea of coins 04:35.440 --> 04:37.860 that claim to care about privacy. 04:37.960 --> 04:41.180 Monero doesn't just offer privacy, it enforces it. 04:41.440 --> 04:43.000 Pride falls, this is critical. 04:43.000 --> 04:45.520 Unlike other so-called privacy coins 04:45.520 --> 04:47.400 that make privacy optional, 04:47.660 --> 04:49.020 Monero makes it automatic.