In this YouTube commentary, the host reviews a recent Joe Rogan podcast episode in which Rogan expresses strong support for cryptocurrency, especially Bitcoin. The host highlights Rogan’s claim that Bitcoin is the future of money, mentions Rogan’s historic 5.2‑BTC wallet, and notes Rogan’s view that Bitcoin can only be stopped by shutting down the internet. The video discusses the broader conversation with rapper‑activist Killer Mike, who, despite limited knowledge of crypto, sees Bitcoin’s deflationary nature as a potential tool for economic empowerment of underserved communities. The host argues that Bitcoin’s lack of mass adoption stems not from awareness—media coverage is abundant—but from poor user‑experience design, causing newcomers to abandon the ecosystem. Governmental factors are examined: the ability to trace Bitcoin, tax obligations, and the possibility of targeting node operators or arresting users, which could limit adoption but not outright eliminate Bitcoin. The commentary promotes a project called BitcoinMYK, presented as a social‑media‑driven, user‑friendly onboarding platform aimed at improving Bitcoin’s accessibility. The video concludes with a typical call‑to‑action for likes, subscriptions, and a link to the BitcoinMYK project.
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Hey you, welcome back to the channel. And guys, I hope you're having a great Sunday. I just want to bring some information to you all today as I'm catching up on my Joe Rogan podcast. I love watching Joe Rogan's show, but interesting enough, Joe Rogan is quite pro-crypto, um, and, uh, he's talking about how cryptocurrency can be the future of money. And of course, any mention of Bitcoin is good for the space. I think Bitcoin has received great press and great media attention. I, you know, I think when we speak of mass adoption, I don't think it's so much that Bitcoin doesn't get the attention it needs or that people don't know about it clearly. Just about everybody now has heard of Bitcoin. I think the problem is when people come into the space, uh, Bitcoin, the structure of Bitcoin isn't really yet developed to the user experience as of yet. And that's, and that's a problem. That, that means that although a lot of people have come into Bitcoin, they've also went out of Bitcoin, or they might not find it quite practical. But it's very interesting because the interviews with Killer Mike— now Killer Mike being this, uh, rapper, personality, activist, uh, you probably remember him a great deal from the Bernie Sanders, uh, campaign. He was reaching out to a lot of inner city youth and, uh, trying to motivate people to vote for Bernie Sanders, who, uh, would offer them from his point of view better opportunity. But I just find it so interesting because many of the, or much of the conversation is talking about, uh, how Bitcoin can bring much of these, um, freedoms and, uh, you know, the, um, things that Killer Mike is speaking about. And Killer Mike, um, uh, um, uh, doesn't know a whole lot about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, right? He, he, he's heard of it like a lot of people, but he doesn't fully understand what it can do for the future of money and opportunity to people. You know, that Bitcoin being deflationary, a lot of the issue is in our money system itself where inflation and a lot of the value of people's money is going out, controlled by governments and banking cartels. He's speaking in this interview about will the banking cartels be able to be controlled? Will something like a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin be able to flourish? And, um, you know, Joe Rogan speaks about the decentralization of it and the fact you gotta basically turn off the internet to stop Bitcoin. But I think personally, from what I'm seeing about it, even though it's a very pro cryptocurrency message, and that's great. Um, as we understand it, Joe Rogan back in 2014 had a wallet with 5.2 Bitcoin in it, and I think to this day he still has that 5.2, uh, Bitcoin in that wallet. And so we're not certain if maybe he has lost the password. I think during the interview, Killer might ask him Did he make a lot of money with Bitcoin? He says no. So I don't know if that's just him trying to kind of pull a 50 Cent type thing, you know, where he doesn't really want to just, you know, talk about how much, you know, money he has, or if it's just that, you know, it's a situation where he's maybe just gonna hold that Bitcoin, you know, until it goes up high in value or until it becomes like this mass adopted. Cryptocurrency. But I want to mention a few things. Uh, one, one I want to mention is that, um, I, I don't necessarily think that it just takes turning off the internet to, to, um, stop Bitcoin, right? Um, you know, when governments, uh, really see something as a threat, um, what they can do is they can start to shut down go directly after the node runners. You know, they can start to basically start locking people up and arresting them. And that fear of prison and jail could— I wouldn't say it would stop Bitcoin, but it probably would greatly limit a lot of users of Bitcoin. So that's a great possibility that that, you know, that that could happen. So it's probably ways that Bitcoin can be stopped But pretty much the idea is that a lot of people feel that Bitcoin, uh, the gov— because the government can trace Bitcoin, and then it's legal to— it's legal to have a token or currency or local economy using money to transact back and forth as long as you're paying taxes, uh, that's not a problem. So the idea is that the federal government, because they could trace Bitcoin, they don't, they don't see Bitcoin as a threat. They can still go out to who they want and tax who they want. So that's not a big problem. I think what we really need to look at though and kind of be mindful of though is that, you know, we should be willing to pay our taxes in Bitcoin. I don't think it's a problem so much, you know, not wanting to pay tax, even though I know some people feel paying taxes is theft, you know, from the government, that it shouldn't be done. But then taxes do a lot of good things to keep the system running to a certain degree. And so, you know, I don't want to go real deep into if people should pay taxes or not on their Bitcoins and their cryptocurrencies, but I will say there are things the government can do to kind of control cryptocurrency still. However, I think the important part is that cryptocurrency is deflationary and a lot of the value that is being lost in our money and our monetary system today, and a lot of the opportunities taken away, especially like what Killer Mike advocates for poor people with their money being inflated. And so they got less of their money and they're already poor. Now, if you had this deflationary cryptocurrency, then, you know, that would act against that to a great degree. But, you know, I think that kind of having this consensus and acceptance of a cryptocurrency, maybe on the scale like what we're doing with BitcoinMYK, our project, I think that probably makes a lot more sense in having this user-friendly way to adopt people in through just a social media site, things they can easily cling to and identify with. I think that probably makes more sense in it. But it is a great interview, guys. It's, uh, Joe Rogan's very pro-crypto. His podcast gets a lot of viewers. I think this already got over a million or something views. So the idea that Bitcoin, uh, isn't mass adopted— I don't think it's not that it's not mass adopted, it's enough information about Bitcoin, it's CNBC every day, uh, it's not being suppressed. And what that tells me is that the problem with Bitcoin is that the structure of Bitcoin hasn't done a good job of going to the user experience, uh, because, uh, if it did, um, I think that a lot of people who are being made aware of Bitcoin every day— and like I said, the media is not suppressing it, uh, you know, there aren't anybody trying to shut it down the government's not trying to shut it down, you know, then that we need to look back into the structure of Bitcoin and projects like Bitcoin NYK. I invite y'all to check that out. I'll leave a link in description as well. We need to look into ways to make this more easily user-friendly to the end user. But that's all I want to say in this video, guys. Guys, if you like content like this, don't forget to like, subscribe, and until next time, take care.
