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Absolutely, absolutely. And you know, we're very interested in a lot of the national security angles here where we're talking a lot about how we can thwart the attacks by North Korea trying to steal all of our crypto. So that's definitely something that Satoshi Action is working on. We're doing deep, deep policy research on. But also again, I think just to kind of continue to expand on the conversation of what's possible and why the military might be looking at these things. There is a tamper proof component to bitcoin that is really important that I don't. Very few people actually are aware of. But imagine you're like pouring a slab of concrete, right? And you walk by and someone writes their name in it and they write the date in it before the concrete dries up, when it hardens 20 years later, someone walks past and sees it and yeah, they know, okay, maybe this person was probably here at this date. And you can't quietly go back and just hammer up the concrete to rewrite the history of what was etched into that concrete. You'd have to get a jackhammer out. You have to jackhammer the whole slab and repour the entire block. And every neighbor on the street is going to see that you're doing that. They're going to hear that you're doing that. Bitcoin does exactly that. But for digital records and communications, you can take any document, and we're not talking about NFTs here, we're not talking about a whole document on the blockchain, we are talking about putting a small string of letters onto the blockchain. But you can take any document, a contract, a photo, a signal, a message, and you can take a little fingerprint of it, a little hash of it, just a string of numbers and you can press that into the bitcoin block so that 20 minutes from now or 20 years from now, if somebody tries to make a change to that signal or message, you pull out the block and you compare one comma off, one byte off, and the fingerprint won't match. If they match, the message is exactly what it was on day one. To make a change to the bitcoin ledger where a fingerprint is stored, someone would have to build up a massive amount of bitcoin mining for a prolonged length of time. We're talking about a 51% attack here. To do that, someone would need to roughly double the existing bitcoin mining hash rate or Co opt 50% of the Bitcoin mining hash rate, which could cost millions, billions of dollars. Take a lot of coordinated effort and everyone, potentially could take years. Yeah, it's never going to happen. Exactly. So very difficult to do. But, but, but this is what makes bitcoin virtually tamper proof, not, not, not resistant tamper proof. That message, let's say, you know, you got a four star admiral to put this into the, the DOD framing, you got a command and control Signal also called C2. These are the types of messages that commanders, that admirals will send when they want to put troops into battle, when they want to launch a missile. Those are very important messages, as you can imagine. And we have to make sure that the admiral wants to know the message that he received hasn't been edited, hasn't been altered. And so this is where bitcoin comes in again. You can put a message on the blockchain, I should say you can put the fingerprint of the message on the blockchain and at any point within the next 20, 30, 40, 50 minutes or beyond, that admiral can look and check and cross reference the bitcoin blockchain and know for a fact, irrefutable fact, that this message has not been changed or altered. And that's, that's huge. I mean the opposite side of this is what we did with stuxnet. I don't know if your listeners are familiar with stuxnet, but it was a virus that we sent to Iran. And what ended up, it ended up getting embedded into their nuclear centrifuge engineering. And we, we were spun up and slowed down their centrifuges over a certain period of time, and that ended up breaking those centrifuges. But when the engineers were looking at all the readings, when they were looking at all the messages coming from their, their communication devices, everything looked fine. And so think about it again, in like a hot war situation. You've got China and us, hot war. And this is how Admiral Paparo thinks. Admiral Paparo, who is the head of Indopacom, he oversees 60% of the world's population, including some of the most important threats that we face today. North Korea, China being the two biggest ones. But he's always thinking, okay, if we actually go to war with China, like, we need to make sure that we, we always are in a better position. They call it overmatch. We're always in a better position than our adversary. And if he can't trust the signals that are being sent to him in that sort of dangerous hot war environment, that could be very troubling. And China has the cyber capacity, they have the cyber ability to really go after us and really attack us. And we need to make sure in those types of environments that we can trust the signals that are being sent between some of the most important people within our military.