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Thanks. I brought Jeff into Minecraft with me today. He actually has a job. We forget that people just show up to this show at like 9 o' clock in the morning when they legitimately have to go to work. But that's what our amazing guests do. There were a couple more stories that I just wanted to ping and so we can go ahead and do them ourselves. We got the time and we're in Minecraft, so we have no limitations here. Literally do anything we want. We have A new third stablecoin Yield meeting is set to take place at the White house tomorrow at 9am Eastern Standard Time. A small group representing crypto and banks is expected to attend. More in the a.m. it feels to me like we've had a lot of these meetings. I can't say whether they have or have not gone anywhere as of yet, but it doesn't feel like they have. It's going to be really interesting to see the next markups on the Clarity act and whether we actually have any consensus from the crypto industry, specifically Coinbase and the bank lobby and the legal side. To me it still feels like the Clarity act is very unlikely to happen, but I'm willing to be pleasantly surprised. All of those same people, by the way, were at Mar a Lago yesterday for the World Liberty Financial Conference. Hooray. Seems like every leader in our country has to go down to Mar a Lago and at least like kiss the family's ring once a year or else they, I don't know, turn into a pumpkin or something. The next story that I wanted to quickly show you is Bitcoin Going to Zero Searches Peak this month Google Trends saw global interest in bitcoin going to zero hit a peak score of 100 on February 13th. Spike comes with bitcoin trading roughly 50 below its all time high amid rising economic and geopolitical uncertainty. Can I ask you guys a question? Do you think that a signal like this and the Crypto Fear Greed index hitting I don't know 5 think that those are bottom signals or top signals? I call me crazy but when everybody's giving up it seems like a really good time to buy bitcoin. I continue to buy bitcoin. I think it could go lower because I'm smart and I am not a boltard and I don't believe that things only go up. But I really think that long term if you can buy bitcoin in the 60 thousands, even if you get the opportunity to buy it lower that this is probably a really good time to enter bitcoin over the long term and seeing things like that, I mean this is just despair, desperation time based capitulation, is it going to zero literally? Not like will bitcoin go down into a deeper bear market? Is it going to literal zero? Is the search? I don't know. I remember when Elon Musk went on Joe Rogan and started smoking weed. And you know, people were like, this guy is unserious. Tesla is going to zero. That was Tesla was 180 bucks pre split. I bought a bunch. I went on social media. I was like, I'm buying the hell out of Tesla here. People are like, you're nuts. It's going to zero. It's like one of the best trades that I ever made in my entire life. Pulled many, many multiples and X's from there because it's irrational. It's irrational to search for Bitcoin. Going to zero. That's literally stupid. And then if you think that that's even possible, I don't care who's searching it, then you are your own best counter indicator. But meanwhile, on the other side, we have Senator SEC Chair Paul Atkins says regulators should not panic over falling crypto prices. Whoa, whoa, whoa, guys, calm down. I don't really like it when people have to assure you like I am, I guess, right now. But people in the government have to assure you that everything's going to be okay. But I think that Paul Atkins here has a very good take, to be quite honest, and that things are going to be just peachy and fine. And meanwhile, other bullish signals. Federal Reserve has injected 18.5 billion into the US banking system for overnight repos. That's fourth largest liquidity injection since COVID QT is officially over. QE is back on the books, baby. And there is fresh liquidity coming into the market. Just wanted to ping those few stories before I exit Minecraft and return back to the real world. Tomorrow we're actually going to try something a little different. I'm doing the solo show as usual, but we just had the opportunity to book Haseeb Qureshi from Dragonfly. He's one of my favorite people. So I'm going to do the first, you know, 20, 25 minutes, the solo show, and then we're going to have him come on, kind of testing a new format where you get me before you get somebody else who's much smarter than me. Like, what if today I just hung out in Minecraft for 20 minutes to build up the suspense? Kind of as Jeff Park's fluffer, as they would say in the industry, is getting it ready, warming it up. In the DJ industry, they'd call me an opening act. Maybe that was more appropriate to say now right at the end of the show. And it was so clean and perfect then to say fluffer. But I'm gonna say Fluffer, fluffer, Fluffer. That's all I've got for you guys today. You know what, Actually, there's one more thing I want to tell you about. I've done it in the past, and I forget about it because, you know, I just don't share stuff. Do you guys remember? You guys might not know this, but I am a partial owner of a company called Defi Spirits with Bitcoin bourbon and Defi Vodka. Bitcoin Bourbon, before I stop drinking entirely, was my favorite drink. It is absolutely incredible and amazing, and the bottle makes for a great gift. And there were some issues with it being available in certain states and whatever, but defispirits.com I highly recommend that you drink this heavily, and if you're not going to drink it heavily, that you maybe gift it to a friend who enjoys drinking heavily. I don't know if I'm allowed to say these things. I don't know. Man, am I going to get in trouble. Seriously, though, look at the bottle. Like, the bottle. And it's a crazy story because Ryan who, like, reached out to me, it's gotta be five years, and he, like, sent it to me. Like, he was, we're doing this. And then there was Covid, and you couldn't get the glass for the bottle. And I actually, like, just as, like, I didn't even know him. He was just emailing me. He was like, what do you think of the bottle design? I was like, cool. And then eventually he got me a bottle and I drank some, and I was like, wow, this won, like, the biggest award possible in San Francisco. It's legit. It's so good. And the bottle looks amazing on your shelf. So I think even if you don't drink, if you don't drink, it looks really good as art. So buy it for a friend who likes bottle art, not your drunk uncle who this might be enabling. That's all I've got for you guys today. Hope you had a good one. I know I did. Jeff park is an absolute legend. The guy is brilliant. You know, I remember when guys like Jeff park and Matt Hogan, they were like the new bitwise guys and bitwise blowing up. And I him on the show, I was like, wow, these guys are really smart. And then like a year later, they're hard to book because they're, like, in the mainstream media and on every show in the world every day. Love to see it. Glad to have Jeff back. I will see you guys soon.