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We had this idea of different themes and a rough idea of the shots. Then basically, my team and I, we spend probably a week just scouring the Internet. There's a website called internetarchive. We just scoured that for the old footage and probably had about a clips. Slowly selected down the ones we thought fit best with all the — with the narration.
Then as we went through the years, we just, we ripped again hundreds of YouTube clips from news casts of the crisis and all of the stuff happening there. Particularly in , there's footage of Usain Bolt and the Olympics. We wanted to not only just have footage that touched on the themes, but also just the mood of Thinking back, it felt like a hopeful time of triumph of humanity or whatever.
We wanted to paint a little picture of that and touch on the moods of the era. Yeah, was stock footage of really old stuff. Then was all YouTube clips. Then, as we went into the future, , , that's all just really good stock footage that we were able to find online.
Again, that was just a process of casting a wide net of possible shots we could use. Then slowly whittling down to our favorite ones.
We actually watched it. The first time I saw it was at another one of these Toronto meetups, at the same place, where it was late in the evening, by the time he'd got the cut from his audio team. There were maybe only 10 of us there, but we watched the first cut of this video and all the music was already there. It was pretty awesome. I want it to make it more awesome, because there was a scene with the agriculture.
I've been talking to Untapped Growth and we had stock footage of cows, and some of them were fat. Some of them more have had. He sent us all those beautiful pictures of the cows that you see roaming the fields, which are actually regeneratively raised [inaudible ] cows. There were lots of these other shots, where we started reaching out to other people and we brainstormed some of the areas that were clumsy.
I think, the thing went through three revisions before it got to this final, most polished state, or that its released state. All the titles, the years , those are all things we animated ourselves. Then graphic scene where it's showing the chance on the brink of bailouts, seeing like we created those graphics. Gone is this. Gone is that. That's why the script contains so many of these. I'll actually be publishing the original article, the longer one that Matt mentioned. It'll be first privately available, because I write for Swan Bitcoin, a private newsletter, private clients.
I'm going to be publishing it in there, in early November, November 12th. Then within a few weeks, we'll release it on the blog to everybody else. We want to make a really nice production of the original article itself, too. Then once it's nicely produced, we'll be able to share it out with everybody else.
I think, we'll be lucky if we get a couple of thousand reads of that. We've already got 11 or 12, views of the video , because videos are just so nice. For people who want to go deeper and see what the original concept was, it'll be there for them pretty soon, but we're focused on the movie for now. Today's the day after the day, which most people think is white paper day. Can you talk about that a little bit? I met with the team at Swan to talk about this just a few days ago.
There was confusion, because many of them have this, the book of Satoshi. It says that the white paper was released at , or at this time, the exact moment that we started this meetup on November 1st. There was confusion, but they held the book up.
I didn't trust them, because I'm a Bitcoiner. They also said, it was much better to release a movie the day after Halloween, than on Halloween when everybody's at a party, which won the argument in any event.
There was all this confusion. It turns out that Satoshi did send the Bitcoin white paper to the Cypherpunk mailing list on October 31st. I think, that's the official date, but that the remailer did not send out the digest until Pacific time, November 1st.
That's where the confusion was. There may be some other of my colleagues on here who can clarify that a little bit. All the best. What this made me realize is before the launch of Bitcoin, we didn't know what the fuck happened.
We just didn't have a reliable time chain. If we said, it was the least of a particular block, or in a particular transaction. There it is. It's in that block. It's not, oh, it was sent at this time and received that. I'm like, this is the confirm time and that's that. It reminds me of Gigi's article, Bitcoin is Time. He points out in there that in the digital realm, we never really had any sense of time, or certainty of what came before and what came after.
We do now, thanks to Bitcoin. I think, I have to apologize for the promise of releasing it on the 13th birthday of Bitcoin's white paper, because in the end of the day, I was mistaken that — I was correct and then mistaken, and now I'm re-corrected. It was yesterday. Y'all were referring to the movie without really teasing it out for those who may not have already watched the film.
I think, it makes sense to actually go step by step through the progression that you tell in the story, Tomer. The year is I could have started plus or minus one or two years from there, but I wanted to start with the last time we had this terrible collapse in our civilization, which was World War II.
World War II was a world war. We Westerners, who I think are most of the audience here tend to think of it as something that took place predominantly in Europe, but it took place in Asia as well.
It has devastating effects all over the world. Millions, tens of millions of people died in horrible ways. It was really, when you look at it in a historical lens, it was just a continuation of World War I, which was equally horrible.
So much was destroyed, like buildings, bombed cities, firebombed, atomic bomb was dropped on — It was a terrible time of devastation. We can't imagine the horror. Those of us who had grandparents, or great-grandparents, who were around and lived there and told us that tales, they were shocking. My wife's grandparents were interned in concentration camps.
They were lucky to survive. They're at the extreme end of lucky for what happened and living by their smarts. They left Europe with nothing. In her case, they came to Canada in the belly of a boat. Her mother was born just before and carried as a baby in the compartment of a boat. They had to build everything from scratch. Louis tells a similar story of what happened in Asia. I wanted to concretize, yes, civilization falls and it fell not too long ago, and we had to rebuild.
The danger of it comes, and everyone talks amongst Bitcoiners about Weimar Germany and how the inflation led to the collapse of the civilization and created the openings for the tyrants to step in. The money has a lot to do with this. Wars were fought over gold and wars were fought over money and wars ended when the money ran out and you couldn't pay the soldiers anymore. It was always war over money.
I wanted to stress that, and I wanted to show both the devastation and the spirit of rebuilding. Because part of what I'm headed for in this movie is we get to rebuild. What if we don't keep getting torn down? What if we actually managed to rebuild and maintain the rebuilding and not see a collapse and fall and devastation? That in the short little article that I wrote for Bitcoin Magazine, it was like, what happens if we have an unfallible civilization, built on the shoulders of an infallible money?
That's why I started in I wanted to really remind people, or demonstrate to them if they hadn't seen it, this isn't a recent history. The people who lived it are now all dying. They're all passing away, but it shouldn't be forgotten. I think, this is a good spot for you to jump in, just because we haven't really gone into detail into the future that Tomer sees and illustrates in the film and the article.
Do you want to chime in with maybe, your personal story around your family name to rebuild and the opportunity you see with Bitcoin? Tomer mentioned in , I think, there's a lot of turmoil and chaos had been around the world, especially in the Asia and Europe, when World War II started. My family suffer aftermath when there's a two parties fighting a civil war in China. We all know, was a national list versus communist. Nationalists actually defeated.
They escaped, retreat back to Taiwan. They left Taiwan with defeated. Then nationalists come to Taiwan and basically, confiscated every resident's wealth, and we have this law being implemented, where all that is going to be belong to the nationalist party. The wealth being redistributed, centered on the high guard of the nationalist party.
That was the background. My family has suffered around the historical moment. Older than is being confiscated. We pretty much lost all the wealth.
Start from zero. We spent a couple of generation to rebuild that wealth back. That reminds me, founder, historical background. We really shouldn't be feel safe, because there's a lot of historical evidence that it might happen again. I'm not saying, be pessimistic about it. At least, we need to defend ourselves against a situation. I'm starting to see this conflict happen again. If that happens, as a Taiwanese, or as someone in deck house situation, you need to find a way, a tool, a technology to escape, or isolate yourself from that situation.
Bitcoin gives that opportunity and solution to that problem. Which that inspired me to contact Tomer, and later, Matthew to construct this film and bring this concept to the light. I think, one of the other things that really inspired me about this story is Louis is a young guy. He's attuned to this, and he doesn't want to see this happen again to his family. He has recognized Bitcoin and invested substantially in Bitcoin. He's not a larper.
He's the real deal. He's taken his family off its wealth, its family wealth and secured it with Bitcoin. That's very real. Because many people would say, that's a huge gamble. You should diversify into real estate and companies and this and that and the other. I don't know exactly what his portfolio is, but I know he has a lot of Bitcoin, or he's heavily about investing in Bitcoin.
It's that kind of commitment that I think, is what paves the way for me then to start thinking about, but there really are families that are serious about Bitcoin, and they're serious about it and in preserving it, and that leads me to the next thing.
I don't know if you wanted to add anything about your conviction and your timeframe around Bitcoin, and how you told me your story, Louis. Maybe you can, if you want, and then we can move forward into the story. It got me really star thinking when, there's a geo-political conflict between US and China. If that happens, there's an urgent sense of where to park your wealth. I think, not a lot of people actually thinking about it. They think this is just something that might just go away.
I don't think so a little bit later than normal. By then, they had way more than caught up by the time they did get it. It's less of a one size fits all approach. Unfortunately, most parents don't have the flexibility, or the ability to do those types of things. The fiat money system has made it so hard to get ahead.
Today, two incomes can't really do that. The parents are gone. They don't really have the time to do that, which is really unfortunate. So much is learned just being at home with the parents. Of course, if the parents are good examples. I think, Bitcoin is really doing a lot to change that. I've been encouraged to see, it's almost like, anybody that comes into Bitcoin gets those orange-colored lenses and see the world differently.
I've seen a lot of people jumping into the education space, starting homeschool pods and things like that, which I think is really cool. I have two kids. They'll certainly never go back to a public education system ever again. We're actively looking for solutions like that. I think, we'll see a lot more of that. One thing that I've been thinking of is that, if we go back to basics, like entrepreneurs, everybody really, we earn money for providing value, right?
Providing a valuable, good or service to somebody else. Serving their needs. The fiat money system has made the system where everybody's gambling on Dogecoin, or shib coin, or whatever. They're trading — options trading. The stock market exceeded a stock trading. Everybody's trading. Everyone's trading currencies. None of that provides any value to anybody.
There's this culture that's been built up, where we can make money. We can increase our US dollars without ever providing any valuable, good or service to the marketplace. Then, we're going to make all of this US dollar trading a bunch of worthless stuff, without adding any value to it.
Then, we're going to take those dollars and then we're going to go try to buy the value and productive goods of other people. It's created this system where everybody's trying to cut corners, everybody's trying to cheat. You see it in the public education system as well. We need to raise money for the schools. They take all the money, the administrators, etc. Yeah, this fiat system has just created this whole system.
Fiat is a system of theft, lies and deceit. It's just poisoned every institution, caused the entire world — All the millennials today are just trading whatever they're trading on Robinhood, not adding any value to anything. It just permeates every area of society.
Education is the most important, because basically, at the base of everything is your education. Were you taught the right food to eat? We talked about diet being more important than exercise. Are you eating the right foods? Do you know what your body needs? That's education. Do you know what money is? Do you know how to work? Do you know how to save? Do you know how to provide value? Do you know how to communicate?
Do you know how to accomplish tasks? That's all education. It's an important topic. I'm glad that Bitcoiners are talking about it. I'm even more glad to see Bitcoiners working on solutions for it. One of the things that we're not educated about is just what money is. I feel like, Bitcoin's a forcing function for a lot of things, but I think it's a forcing function for financial literacy in general.
It might even have a similar effect to literacy at that the printing press had. I think, they'll have a similar effect to financial literacy. In terms of financial, just understanding wellbeing, who has cosmic ideas around what this might look like? I'm curious, who here has thought about that? It's just that the risk-reward tradeoff is going to be a much more carefully inspected and decided upon, because our base asset is just so much better, now that we actually have real money.
Yeah, everything will be on a spectrum, and you still may take that one in 10, chance of become a million X, pay off on sometime you start up. You'll not feel required to push way out on the risk spectrum, the way that people are today, where everybody has to be a hedge fund manager, basically, just to stay abreast of inflation. She's getting heavier and I'm pulling her in the wagon. Yeah, anybody on my team knows a couple of times a week, they're going to get breathy, Cory.
It's not pretty. I think, a big part of it is just regulation. Right now, government is so big much, and there's so much regulation that you can try little, new ideas. You'll get shut down. You'll get stopped. You can go and experiment in here. I think, there was an ASIC regulatory sandbox. The reality is, the current system, it just — the incentive of it, the system of it drives towards. If you've got a lot of money, you can lobby, you can influence, you've got credibility in the halls of power.
You can influence things and keep them your way. Whereas, if you're the challenger, you're the upstart. You need an ability to be able to compete without necessarily having to take every little box that the current government wants you to. A part of that plays into whether it's KYC, AML, anti-money laundering laws, or whether it's other regulations that apply in education, it just applies in so many different fields.
I really think we are going to be moving into a world, where entrepreneurs will try lots of crazy ideas. Then the best ones will get replicated by everyone else. All the people in the market will then take those on and give it a go. We are really going to have a lot better. I don't want to be, what's the word? Like a Pollyanna, or just say, everything's going to be perfect, but we should be rationally optimist, that we should be cautiously optimistic about how things will be under a Bitcoin standard.
I think, he probably have something about — it was a study basically, about which kinds of rich people don't mind. Basically, the middle-class and the lower class absolutely hates rent-seekers that get to the top, that are just careerists and empty suits, or whatever. They love entrepreneurs.
They love people that actually take risks, but have skin in the game. Now, I'm thinking about it. It's probably just the opening chapters of skin in the game that it shows the study that somebody did. It totally makes sense. I think, you'll see a lot more people actually starting things and trying to make things that actually last, and not just playing this startup VC Ponzi game, where everybody makes out okay.
Even if it's not successful, just like a lot of these altcoins, which is the natural progression of the way VC has been going for the last 20 years. I think, you'll see that go away. People will have skin in the game. Probably a lot more like the engineer that builds the bridge and is required to move his family under the bridge for the first year.
He truly does have skin in the game. It'll be like that. Because if you lose people's Bitcoin and you didn't give it a lot more than the college try, you ain't going to get another shot. If you treat their Bitcoin like digital gold, and you try your hardest and you're open and communicative, like the way that Bitcoiners are in general anyway, you'll probably get shot after shot. If you're a good entrepreneur, you'll be able to try a bunch of times.
Because really, if you're not a debt slave, then you can take risks. You can have some savings to rely on, so that way, you can do something that's a little out there and take a risk. There's always greater fractals to that. Literally, everyone who has a lot of their personal net worth in Bitcoin, or is stacking irresponsibly, or whatever out of their paycheck, that's an entrepreneurial decision.
You're doing something that is against the grain, that is against the advice of almost everybody around you, that is unlike most of the other people around you. It's very entrepreneurial. We're raising a generation of entrepreneurs and they're just called Bitcoiners. We'll see. You didn't really see a lot of stock market activity pre Android device and chipset manufacturers may also publish security vulnerability details specific to their products, such as:. Learn how to check and update your Android version here.
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