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1946: Philippines, Indonesia Tipped As Next Bitcoin Nation-States by Samson Mow
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Citing the example of Bhutan as a catalyst, Jan3 founder Samson Mow suggests that other resource-rich countries may replicate this Bitcoin country model.
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Copyright 2025 welcome crypto fam to number one Daily Bitcoin Pod. In today's show, I'll be sharing the latest Bitcoin technical analysis as we just flipped back in the green. Also, breaking news Stablecoin Multiverse begins according to the Tether CEO and quoting the high Priest of Bitcoin, Max Kaiser. Fiat Money Crash and Against gold and Bitcoin US dollar stablecoins will accelerate the US dollar crash. We'll also be discussing over 400 South Korean officials disclose almost 10 million in crypto holdings as well as GameStop jumped 12% after the Bitcoin purchase plans were announced, only to be followed by GameStop down 20% after announcing the 1.3 billion convertible debt offering to buy Bitcoin. And we're also going to be discussing could Bitcoin hit 200,000 as a result of the GameStop adoption? I'll be breaking this down for you. Also breaking news the Philippines and Indonesia are tipped as the next Bitcoin Nation States by Jan3founder Samson Ma. Bitcoin adoption. Let's get it. We'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market. All this plus so much more in today's show. Yo, what's good Crypto fam? This is first and foremost a video show. So if you want the full premium experience with video, visit my YouTube channel at cryptonewsalerts.net Again, that's Crypto News Alerts. Net Today is Pod Episode 1946. I'm your host JV. It's March 27, 2025 Bitcoin just flip back in the green. We're hovering at about 87,000 at the time of the live stream. So let's kick it off with our market watch as we do each and every day. And as you can see on coin360 we're also back in the green above 87. Ether is correcting just above 2000. XRP down 2%. And BNB, Salana, Cardano and Tron pumping and in the green and checking out coinmarketcap. The current crypto market cap is sitting at a 2.84 trillion dollar mark. It's back on the rise, which is cool. The bitcoin dominance is or I'm sorry market cap is 1.7 trillion. We got 75 billion worth of volume over the past 24 hours with the Bitcoin dominance 60.8% with the Ether dominance 8 and a half percent. And checking out top 100 crypto gainers past 24 hours. Curve Dow token up 10 on the day followed by Bera up 9% followed by Maker up 8%. Altcoins are you bullish on Let me know and checking out the crypto. Actually let's do the crypto bubbles then the greed and fear index according to the crypto bubbles to get a visual perspective on the day, I'd say 6040 right over the green. Zooming out on the monthly ouch, maybe 8020 blood red rec city over the green and checking out the crypto index. Today we're 40 fear yesterday at 47 last week at 49 last month 25 extreme fear and checking out the time chain calendar we have 160,299 blocks until the next having in 2020 and we're currently on block number 889. 701. But who's counting besides me and you currently exchange one fiat monopoly dollar for 1150 sats to pick up the SAS, put down the gas, pick up the bitcoin caps. Bitcoin caps.net my man Sergio. Tell him I sent you on this freaking go. Here we go. Headline here reads Bitcoin price prediction markets bet Bitcoin won't go higher than 138,000 in 2025. Personally I think that's ridonkulous. Even my bear scenario is a 222, which is way above and beyond this. But we'll entertain it nonetheless. And then I'll pull up some of the live charts. So yeah, conservative poly market users cap the bitcoin price upside at 60 the Bitcoin bull market projections have taken a beaten this quarter thanks to multiple setbacks impacting crypto in the wider risk asset spectrum. Now an assessment of the potential bitcoin price outcomes on polymarket concludes the bull market cycle may be capped at around 60% before next year. The results were uploaded on X and showed the price bets extend all the way down to 59G's baby. Quoting them here. The great thing about this analysis is that it not only provides a market sentiment score like the Fear and greed index, but also attaches unexpected or expected price targets for both bearish and bullish scenarios. This offers a reference to compare one's price prediction along with the market as outlined here. The bitcoin price targets as per poly market. Now if you don't agree with that and you're a betting man, you can place your bet. The bitcoin will go higher and the odds are in your favor. That's the underdog bet right now. Now Ashwin deconstructed the methodology used to analyze the odds across multiple poly market arenas, resulting in a potential bitcoin price range between 59. That's much lower than where we're even at now to138,000. Now the138,000 price target may not be seem bullish to most bitcoiners who are accustomed to hearing the hyperbolic 10 million or 50 million. Mikey Sailor Price targets. Now we're talking. And also especially with the United States of America signing the strategic Bitcoin Reserve and Trump signing the executive order. Come on now. This episode is brought to you by Indeed. When your computer breaks, you don't wait for it to magically start working again. You fix the problem. So why wait to hire the people your company desperately needs? Use Indeed sponsored jobs to hire top talent fast. And even better, you only pay for results. There's no need to wait. Speed up your hiring with a $75 sponsored job credit@ Indeed.com podcast. Terms and conditions apply. But anyways, the modest expectations for bitcoin mimic those elsewhere on fellow prediction site Kelshi. One average price target stands at 122G's baby. 11 and a half thousand beyond the current all time high. Current price discovery is 1093, which was achieved a couple of months back on January 10, which ironic enough was inauguration day. You can see here how high would a bitcoin price get this year. Put in your votes 43%. Say 125 or above. 25 say 150 or above. And looks like less than 25, say 160 or above. Now let's also break down earlier in the month, a historically accurate forecasting tool and its creator described as showing where Bitcoin won't be in the future. Given a 95 chance of 69,000 holding. And lo and behold, 69 did hold hold. We currently bottomed out at around 76.77. Do you think the bottom is in? Please do let me know and I promise to pull up the live charts. Let's do that really quickly here, Bitty fam. And again, welcome everyone joining today's live stream. Here's just a 1 minute chart via trading view via Coinbase. Three targets on the screen with the most bullish one sitting at 87. 8 and zooming out from the 1 minute. Taking a quick look at a daily. Actually let's start at the one hour. Okay, zoomed out too much. And then we'll work our way back. So here's a one hour chart. Overall we do have a bull scenario sitting at 89. 8 which is like yeah, I mean 27, 2800 above where we're at. And we do have a couple of bear targets on the hourly chart. One at 83. Eight and then one super low at 79, 000. But you guys let me know if you think the bottom is in or do you think we're likely test lower lows. And checking out here on the four hour we have a followed by a rising wedgie. And we have a bull target in the green at 1137 as well as one in the red at 105. 471 along with two bear scenarios, one at 83. 8 and one at 79.2. And zooming out from the four hour. We'll take a look at a daily. The daily chart says it's going out forever. Laura. We also have a rising wedge, falling wedge combination, two bull targets, one red scenario 113 ultimately which is price discovery clearly. And then there's one at 102 bear targets, one at 68. 699. Just shy of the previous cycle. All time high. Yeah, I mean when we hit 69 back in November of 2021 for the first time. And we also have a 49 scenario. And Zooming out from there. Let's take a look at a weekly. We do get a weekly close on Sunday. Fortunately past couple of weeks we did get bullish. Weekly closes after a very bearish week about three weeks ago. You can see that big mega red candle that took us down to the current lows. But anyways, we also have the 124 cup and handle target on your screen, at least on the weekly chart, which you can see here. Let me know when you feel we'll likely fulfill that destiny. And zooming out from there, we take a look at the monthly and as you can see thus far it looks like we're in the green for the month and we do get a close in just a few more days. I'm assuming there's 31 days in March. Let me pull up my calendar just to make sure. Let's see. Yep. And then April Fool's Day is the following day on April 1st, so get your April Fool's jokes in order in advance. But anyways, let's move on. Next Bitty story of the day Family let's discuss the Multiverse of Stable Coins that's right, stablecoin Multiverse begins according to the Tether CEO Paolo Paolo, CEO of the stablecoin issuer Tether, said the industry just entered into a new era. The bitty error marked by an influx of stablecoin solutions from both private companies and the governments, and a new thread. He said the crypto industry just entered the stablecoin universe era, where multiple stable coins are launching to meet the global growing demand. As the outline right here on X new era begins, the stablecoin Multiverse. Hundreds of companies and governments are launching or will soon their stable coins, their digital dollars, right? I am very proud to see such massive adoption of a technology that Tether created back in 2014. Best of luck everyone. You're going to need it. However, Slava Demchuk, CEO of crypto compliance firm AML Bot, shared that she disagreed with the premise that there are hundreds of stable coins launched by companies and governments, drug traffickers, anti money laundering, tax avoidance. He said the claims are an exaggeration and highlighted that launching a stablecoin is a complex and resource intensive process. Hence why, he said good luck with that one, quoting him here. Mica, for instance, imposes stringent requirements, particularly prudential ones such as capital reserves, liquidity buffers and robust governance structures that not all companies can easily meet. On the other hand, Dum Chuk or Demuk noted that the growth in the number of the stable coins poses a challenge and risk. He pointed out regulatory differences across jurisdictions are an issue with Mica providing clarity in the eu while the US Markets are still in debate, leading to a global patchwork of the rules. He warned that such inconsistency risk pushing companies to less regulated markets.
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The consequence of such an exodus would be that the consumer protection efforts would be undermined now. Also, he claimed tether currently counts 400 million users worldwide, almost a half a billion users. That's pretty impressive and he expects that that number to reach 1 billion soon. He attributes the quick growth to an approach different from that of the players in traditional finance, quoting them here we always focus on the adoption from the ground up, working in the streets amongst other people while traditional finance was watching at us their own ivory towers. Meanwhile, the chief operating officer of decentralized finance protocol Purify shared that Paolo's forecast is interesting but not entirely realistic. He cited the recent delisting of USDT in the eu. That's because the EU sucks. You know, down with Christine Lagat if she's still in power I would assume. And anyways who cares what they have to say in the eu? They're ass backwards to say the least. And shout out to all the people out there holding it down and you know on that side of the world. But we all know their government sucks donkey balls. But I digress. Quoting the high priest of Bitcoin, Max Kaiser Fiat Money Crashing Against Gold and bits Coin US Dollar stable coins will accelerate this US dollar crash. This is off the back of breaking news. Gold prices rise to 3100 for the first time. And of course Mr. Shift is doing his victory dance. You got to make fun of him on X if you get the opportunity to do so, post some memes. Max also recently wrote today US dollar stable coins are exactly the same as the US dollar in key respects. Number one, they can be printed out of thin air. Pretty low money printer go Burr. Number two, they're backed by the UST bills that are also printed out of thin air. Number three, they are centralized. It can be turned on and off, added or deleted by a central authority for any reason. And number four they're highly inflationary. An example purchasing power of the US dollar will absolutely crash. Now Russia and China consider it more U S hegemony and will reject them. And I think I finally got the pronunciation right on the word bingo. Let's go. A Russia China goldback stable coin is coming. America's just 5% of the global population may not use it but the other 95 of the world will. And if you don't know now you know Broskis. But anyways, keep the comments flowing fam. We have over 900 people on the stream. Let's dive into our next story of the day regarding South Korea officials. Headline reads over 400 South Korean officials disclose roughly 10 million in crypto holdings. That's right. The South Korea's ethics commission revealed that the high ranking public officials of the country hold an average of 35.1 million won, which is 24,000 USD in crypto assets. On March 27, the country's ethnic commission of government officials reportedly disclosed that more than 20% of the surveyed public officials hold 14.4 billion won, which is just shy of 10 million USD worth the cryptocurrency. This means 411 of the 2047 officials subjected to the country's disclosure requirements hold crypto assets. The highest amount disclosed was 1.76 billion won, which is 1.2 million USD belonging to Seoul City Councilor Kim Young. Someone got a good job there. The officials held different crypto assets including the Biddy, Ether, xrp, Dogecoin and Luna Classic, the ultimate shitcoin. Now the disclosure of public officials crypto assets follow calls for transfer from the Prime Minister. 2023 South Korean Prime Minister Dan Dioxo, I know I'm butchering the name, but bear with me, said in a news conference that the high ranking government officials must include crypto in their property disclosures. Well, I guess it's digital property and they want them to disclose it. The official said crypto should be treated similarly to their assets like precious metals or as I call it now, not so precious metals. May 25, 2023 South Korea passed the bill mandating public officials to include crypto their public disclosures. Now, if you were holding crypto hypothetically in a private wallet and your government wanted you to disclose it, genuine question, would you let me know? The new system granted South Koreans access to the crypto holdings of at least 5,800 public officials. And the reason I brought that up is I'm sure there's some public officials who are not disclosing it. You could assume, especially if they had a large amount of crypto and they don't want no one to know about it because some people may have acquired it peer to peer and not necessarily bought it and there's no record of it. And so it's like, would you invite a vampire under your bed? Probably not, but anyways. In June of 2024 crypto exchanges in the country launched information provision systems to simplify the registration of information about crypto holdings. The new law was created in response to controversy involving South Korean lawmaker Kim Cook, who was what a name. Kim Cook who was accused of liquidating crypto assets and concealing holdings of around four and a half million. And that's precisely what I would expect people who had millions in crypto to do if the government wanted them to disclose of it. Like they're not probably going to do that unless they're just 100% transparent, in which I wouldn't anticipate most people to be.
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I digress. Kim departed from the Democratic party at the height of the controversial lawsuit to relieve party members of the burden of the lawsuit. And while prosecutors requested a six month prison sentence for Kim, the lawmaker was eventually acquitted after a judge ruled that crypto assets were not subject to public disclosure disclosures. Bingo. I love that. Let me repeat what the judge said. Crypto assets are not subject to public disclosure. So if you got crypto in your private wallet, let's keep it private. You lost in a boat and accident. Tax that lizard folk. And with that being shared. All right, next story of the day, Gamestop saga. We have a lot to share here. And then we'll get into the bitcoin countries that are most likely to be next according to Samson Mao for nation level adoption of the bitty as the game theory continues. But this was the big news. GameStop jumped 12% after Bitcoin purchase plans were announced by their board of directors. And then ironically the following day they announced acquiring 1.3 billion convertible debt offering to buy bitcoin. And we dropped 20%. Yeah, I mean and then so yeah, let's just start here and then we'll get deeper into it and then I have a 200000 prediction as a result of this adoption. But yeah, GameStop shares jumped nearly 12 March 26 after the company announced plans to purchase the pre low video. Enough forever, Laura. The company plans to finance the purchase through debt financing. After the markets closed March 26, GameStop announced a 1.3 billion convertible notes offering. Sound familiar? It should. It's called the Sailor put the convertible senior notes debt that can later be converted into equity will be used for general corporate purposes, including acquiring the biddy, according to the company's statement quoting them here. GameStop expects to use the net proceeds from the offering for general corporate purposes, including the acquisition of the Bitty, in a manner consistent with GameStop's investment policy. The company revealed March 25 plans to use a portion of the corporate cash or future debt to buy digital assets including Bitcoin and US dollar peg stablecoins. GameStop's cash reserve stood at $4.77 billion February 1, compared to 921.7 million one year earlier. And according to the Google Finance gain Stop Shares closed at $28.36, $0.06 on the NYSE, marking an 11.65% gain on thy day. The company reported a net income of 131 million for Q4 2024, compared to 63.1 million the prior year Q4. And although net sales have fallen 511 million year over year, the company has been aggressively cutting expenses, including closing 590 stores throughout the United States in 2024. How many of you have like a GameStop in your local area or city or shopping mall? Let me know. GameStop was once at the center of the 2021 meme stock craze, when retail traders orchestrated the infamous short squeeze that sent the price of the stock soaring like a roaring kitty. Not me. I'm for the Bitty. I'm for the Nipinator. I'm for Nipsey. Just referencing our classic 60 GS jammed by Chandy. Some hedge funds closed down as a result of the losses sustained during the short squeeze. Given the Gamestop meme stock a rise of a David Vers Goliath narrative, and we all know how that ended. GameStop is following the lead of Strategy B, which first added the Bitty to the treasury back In August of 2020, the first publicly traded company to do so. And as of December 2024, Strategy stock gained 3200% since adopting its Bitcoin strategy. Meanwhile, we also have Meta Planet, the Japanese version, with planning to buy 21,000 bitcoin by the end of next year and their goal is 10,000 before the end of this year and they saw their stock price rise 4,800% since announcing the move and in promotional materials Meta Planet said it attracted a significant number of new investors with its market capitalization rising by 6,300%. We also have similar scientific saw a spike in its share price after announcing plans to purchase Bitcoin and the question becomes which companies will be next to adopt a bitcoin treasury Strategy? There's now 32 publicly traded companies which hold BTC on their balance sheet. Which company will likely be next? You let me know your thoughts and you can see the breaking news that started this all yesterday. Gamestop to raise 1.3 billion to buy Bitcoin. And this announcement was within 24 hours from the announcement of their board of directors open to, you know, buying bitcoin. And it's already occurring so let's freaking go. And you already know, I'm sure Michael Saylor's the genius with the blueprint they're following obviously. And with that being shared also here, Gamestop investor tells Fox it should buy two and a half billion worth of bitcoin with cash. GME is going to a hundred dollars he says quoting him here. This is a 13 billion dollar Bitcoin hedge fund and if you don't know, now you know. But anyways, let's continue. Let's discuss a 700, I'm sorry $200,000 prediction off GameStop purchasing the biddy again. They just made the announcement of 1.3 billion being purchased.
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JV
Edu as shared right here. That was the big news from yesterday. So let's dive deeper into this and then we'll dive into our feature story of the day. Despite strong institutional demand, Bitcoin struggled to reclaim 100,000 level for the past 50 days leading investors to question the reasons behind the bearishness. Despite a seemingly positive environment, the price weakens or weakness is particularly intriguing given the U S Strategic Bitcoin Reserve executive order issued by our POTUS March 6th which allows Bitcoin acquisitions as long as they follow the budget neutral strategies example Offload your gold allegedly at Fort Knox and trade it for the apex predator, the hardest asset to ever exist. That's what the nipinator would do. On March 26, GameStop, the North American video game consumer electronics retailer announced plans to allocate a portion of its corporate reserves to of the bitty the company which was on the verge of bankruptcy in 2021, successfully capitalized the historic short squeeze and managed to secure an impressive almost 5 billion in cash equivalent by February of 2025. And question for the Brosis, where do you think that 5 billion in cash is about to enter? And don't say the Dragon on behalf of Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee rest in peace is entering the preload bitty. Why the pre little bitty is going up forever Laura Now a growing number of US based international companies followed Michael Sailor's playbook. The Sailor put including Japanese firm Meta Planet which recently appointed Eric Trump, son of President Trump to his newly established strategic board of advisors. I think that was a very clever move. And similarly the mining conglomerate Marathon Digital, the largest bitcoin mining company adopted a bitcoin treasury policy to retain all the bitties and increase of its exposure through the debt offering. And there must be a strong reason for bitcoin investors to sell their holdings especially as gold is trading just 1.3% below all time high. And I heard this morning if it's accurate we surpassed 3, 100 in gold because I saw Peter Schiff flexing on plebs. But anyways while the U S administration adopted pro crypto stance following the Trump election, the infrastructure needed for Bitcoin to serve as collateral and integrate into traditional financial systems remains largely undeveloped. The U S spot bitcoin ETFS is limited to the cash settlement preventing in kind deposits and withdrawals. But fortunately a potential rule change currently under review by the USS SEC could reduce capital gain distributions and enhance the tax efficiency. Banks like JPM primarily serve as intermediaries or custodians for crypto related instruments such as derivatives and spot Bitcoin ETFs. The repeal of SAB 121 accounting rule January 23 and SEC ruling that impose strict capital requirements on digital assets does not necessarily guarantee the broader adoption. And scrolling down a little more, let's just dive all the way down here. Institutional investors remain hesitant to gain exposure to Bitcoin markets due to concerns about market manipulation and a lack of transparency amongst the leading exchanges. The fact that finance Kucoin okay and cracking it pays significant fines to the US authorities for potential anti money laundering violations and unlicensed operations for the fuels the negative sentiment towards the sector. But ultimately the buying interest from the small number of the companies is not enough to push the biddy price to 200,000 per coin and additional integration with the banking sector remains uncertain despite more favorable regulatory conditions. Until then my friend, Bitcoin's upside potential will continue to be limited as risk perception remains elevated, especially within the institutional investment community. And if you don't know now, you know now. Personally, I'm going to say it. I've said it before, I'll say it again. I personally believe our bear scenario for this year is 222 and we'll blow right past this. Easy peasy. JV's bull scenario is 1.1 million. Convince me otherwise. Now for our feature story of the day. Philippines and Indonesia tipped as the next Bitcoin Nation States by Jan3 founder Samson Ma let's break this down. He was recently interviewed or actually spoke at this conference. He explains how Bhutan, the Kingdom of Bhutan leads the way, how January has shaped Bitcoin strategies worldwide, and why the race is heating up after Trump's executive order. But the million dollar question remains. Which countries will be next? Well, let's break this baby down. January digital infrastructure company founded by Samson Mao in 2022, which focuses on accelerating hyper bitcoinization by providing tools for the biddy adoption, stirred a fresh debate on sovereign Bitcoin adoption by sharing a BULL statement on X Bitcoin adoption amongst nation states continues accelerating. Samson now explains how the Kingdom of Bhutan leads the way and how Jan3 has shaped the bitcoin strategies worldwide and why the race is heating up after the recent Trump executive order. So the question remains, which countries are likely to be next? In the video I just reference Mao, who has long advocated for Bitcoin's potential to spur economic growth, emphasized Bhutan's success as the prime example for countries with unexploited energy resources, and according to Samson, the Philippines and Indonesia could be next. Bali, let's go in line to harness the bitcoin mining as a nation building tool, particularly by leveraging geothermal.
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JV
There energy reserves and I'm sure you've heard of that term that's using natural resources such as volcano energy to mine the bitcoin. And let me know if any of you have been to the Philippines Or Indonesia, I'm assuming they have some very cost effective ways of mining, obviously using free energy. So let's go. Mao underscores Bhutan's journey from a very poor country country to the highest bitcoin per capita country in the world. He remarked, bitcoin can transform a country very clearly and it can just lift it out of poverty and monetize stranded or wasted energy. That's a fact, Jack, because the highest and best use of the energy is going to be mining the bitcoin. Another great example is the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender, which was El Salvador back in 2021. And they also claim they're going to be using geothermal energy, you know, volcano energy, and building a city called Bitcoin City, evolving around it with very advantageous tax laws and things of this nature. And of course they're acquiring Bitcoin. Already have over 6,000 Bitcoin on the balance sheet and they've been averaging over one bitcoin purchase per day over there in bitcoin country. And Bhutan, I believe, has even more Bitcoin than El Salvador. But by using the Bitcoin proceeds, Bhutan has reportedly begun financing significant infrastructure, including constructing an airport, a striking development for a country that once lacked the funds for such projects. Samson positions this as a powerful demonstration of how mining can be underused or stranded energy into a national revenue stream. Now remember, Trump made the big announcement at the Nashville conference that he was going to make America the bitcoin mining hub of the world. Well, this is a part of the global hash war, the global race to adopt the Bitcoin. And this is what we're witnessing. And I'm pretty confident all the countries around the world are having these conversations right now of adapting a strategic Bitcoin reserve or adapting it for their treasury, or getting exposure to Bitcoin some way somehow before they get left behind. Now, Philippines and Indonesia are the next adopters, according to Samson. Citing the example of Bhutan as a catalyst, Samson suggests that other resource rich countries may replicate this model, specifically pointing out to the Philippines and Indonesia, both known for their untapped geothermal capacity, as prime candidates for state level biddy adoption. Quoting them here, I believe there's a big opportunity for the Philippines and Indonesia to monetize their stranded energy that geothermal potential. Mao's reasoning is straightforward. If Bhutan can direct mining revenue towards infrastructure projects, then other nations with large geothermal reserves may do the same. And rather than letting surplus or hard to access energy go to waste, countries can simply redirect Those resources into mining operations, funneling any profits into roads, hospitals, airports or other development goals which are infrastructure related. It seems now one factor Mao highlights is the influence of the executive order signed by Potus Trump for the strategic Bitcoin reserve, which he believes has prompted various governments to reassess their approach to the bitcoin. Bitcoin agreed. This order, per Mao, has kind of lit the fire under their ass. Under international policies who worry about the U. S potentially moving first. First movers advantage baby. There can only be one bitcoin superpower. Will it be China? Will it be Russia? Will it be the United States of America? Let me know. Mao explains that at Jan.3 discussions with governments have intensified in the last couple of years. There are setbacks due to the events like the FTX collapse. You can thank Scam Bankman Freed which tarnished the bitcoin reputation despite being a broader crypto failure with the U. S pushing forward through executive action, Ma said certain government entities that once planned to move to bitcoin adoption in the later years in example 2027 are now shifting timelines up in an attempt to front run or at least keep up pace with the US we call this game theory. However, while some governments appear keen to following Bhutan's model, Ma warns that the policy making is inherently cumbersome. Legislative changes often require multiple rounds of internal approvals, public consumption consultations and political buy ins. The time frame, the time available to implement something is not much because governments move slow. As BlackBerry Molasses Couldn't agree more. He points out that the new regulatory policy framework can take months or even years to materialize, by which time technological or market dynamics may change. And as a result, countries hoping to capitalize on the bitcoin amount of opportunity face a shrinking window if they aim to outpace major economic powers like the United States of America. It is not until someone actually goes and does it that it kind of clicks in their heads now emphasizes reinforcing the notion of Bhutan success might spur real momentum for similar initiatives in Southeast Asia. Whether the Philippines and Indonesia indeed join the ranks of the bitcoin enabled nation states remains yet to be seen. What are your thoughts? Family? However important to note, Mao has been actively involved in discussing regarding Bitcoin adoption in Indonesia. Alongside Governor Rid Juan Camille of West Java, Mao has participated in events like Bitcoin 2023 where they discussed the strategic implications of integrating Bitcoin into Indonesia's economic landscape. That's why I got a lot of respect.
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JV
Guarantees for Samson Mao. He is leading the way with Jan3 and Nation State bitcoin adoption. So obviously he knows what he's talking about. He's not just pulling these countries out of his ass. So let's freaking go Philippines. Let's go Indonesia. Let's adopt the biddy. And with that being shared. Welcome everyone to the Q A segment of the live stream. Pre low bitty going up. Still in the green up $243 on the day trading above 87. 300. This is your opportunity. Ask your boy or the chairman of the SEC any questions. I'll do my best to answer them and read all your comments out loud. Let's get it.
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JV
Yeah we build it this way.
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JV
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