Name: Khalil Rountree's Bitcoin Awakening
Uploaded: 2022-05-03T17:37:09.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Khalil Rountree's Bitcoin Awakening' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-05-03. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Khalil Rountree's Bitcoin Awakening' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-05-03. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience I went to the Bitcoin conference in Miami this year
and
just got to see and hear some really really cool things and the people who
are like pioneering this and and really believing in in Bitcoin specifically
not
just like the whole world of cryptocurrency but Bitcoin itself I
haven't been excited about something like this in a really long time and I'm
not a finance guy I'm not a guy who grew up knowing about you know financial
systems and networks and stock markets or anything and now I'm finally at a
point where I'm starting to be able to like see a future for myself and also a
way to like people like me don't really have like generational wealth right and
I don't understand I don't see how you know I can really create that through
fighting alone so lately I've just been trying to understand more of like the
the advancement of technology and kind of where we're headed right like for
instance you know when I was a kid in the 1990s and in early 2000s when the
internet came versus now like in that jump in my lifetime it's night and day
difference like I'm living in the sci-fi compared to what was in the 90s you
know
so now just you know listening to people really like really smart people even
like you know me park who you had here yeah and hearing her and how she spoke
about how like Bitcoin is actually helping save some children from like so in
North
Korea this is what she said in North Korea when women are are are taken as sex
slaves and shipped over to northern China where these guys are buying them
because
China has this this one child rule in certain areas right so if the woman if
the
if the sex slave has a child then that child is half North Korean and half
Chinese
and the Chinese won't accept them and they can't go back to North Korea because
the
women kind of like escaped right so because of that there's actually what she
said are
pretty much millions of stateless children who can't get birth certificates who
can't get schooling who can't get anything and they're either like sent to
prison camps as children or killed because they're what are they going to do
with them China doesn't accept them and they can't go back to North Korea so
what
happens right so there's like underground church groups that are actually
taking these
kids in and because they can't use Chinese money and they you know because it's
happening
in China because they can't use Chinese money the only currency that they can
use right now
is Bitcoin and so people are able to fund them too so that they can at least
school these
kids and feed them and things like that so from like a from like a currency and
like money standpoint
there's like a small fraction of where I'm like okay I see how this works but
then trying to
uncover and like dive more into the whole system of how this can be implemented
into just like daily
society I'm seeing more and more possibility and it's making me more and more
secure on hey man I can
actually finally have something that I own that's mine like whatever I earn is
going to be mine and you
can't touch it no one can touch it every from and there's a guy uh Adam Curry
who good buddy of mine
yeah yeah you know like uh uh podcast index like his now they've created this
thing where you um if you
want to have your own platform and not worry about being taken down or censored
or whatever and you
can also get paid in satoshis which are fractions of a Bitcoin from the
supporters so you can stream
your sats you don't have to buy Bitcoin you can create a platform where hey I'm
speaking if I wanted
to start one and I'm like you know I don't have the money to actually buy
Bitcoin but I do have a lot
of stuff that I want to talk about subscribe to my podcast and then my fans and
my followers are
streaming to me satoshis just like they would on Instagram like likes right you
get what I'm saying
so likes and replays and all that stuff is also a currency like people don't
really look at it that
way but like yeah a lot of these a lot of these like companies that want to do
business with me it's
like oh how many followers you have what's your Twitter engagement what's your
Instagram engagement
oh this video only got 70,000 plays that's a form of currency because that's
like looked at as you know
my value or my worth on whether or not you're gonna work with me or not well
that's why shadow banning
is so sneaky yeah man it's shadow banning is so insidious because you're you're
limiting a person's
ability to grow exactly and they do that all the time with people exactly I
think of Bitcoin the same
way I think about the early internet I think they they didn't see it coming and
now it's a viable form
of currency you can actually buy things with it and I think the government is
freaking out I think what
they're gonna try to do is they tried to they try to do some shit with the
internet during the Obama
administration where they were gonna try to censor the internet and it fell
apart because people were
furious in the uproar and they thought the political repercussions of it were
not worth it
like the the juice wasn't worth the squeeze so they backed off of it but I feel
that there's gonna come
a time where some government whether it's the United States or another
government might try it first
they're gonna try to implement I know they already do it in China but they're
trying to gonna try to
implement a digital currency a centralized digital currency that they can
control yeah what's scary
about that is they could say Khalil you know we we've looked at you know your
behavior online and you
have some some marks against you and so you're not gonna be able to buy this
yeah or you can only buy
staples you can't you know you can buy food and and shelter but we're not gonna
allow you to travel yeah because they're like that
that could be a real thing where they know it literally limit what you spend
your money on 1000% Joe