Why aren’t junk tokens totally in the toilet now that they have been snubbed by the US government?

Published March 7, 2025

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    00:01 hey everyone you may be wondering now
    00:03 that the US government has officially
    00:05 established a strategic Bitcoin reserve
    00:07 and has officially snubbed the other
    00:10 crypto stuff that Donald Trump had
    00:13 tweeted about on Sunday morning why
    00:16 isn’t the other stuff that Donald Trump
    00:18 tweeted about totally in the toilet um
    00:21 and the answer is I don’t know because
    00:25 people have an almost unlimited ability
    00:28 to be irrational now um they might be
    00:31 more in the toilet than I realized
    00:32 because when I compare anything I
    00:34 compare it in terms of Bitcoin so when I
    00:36 check the price of salana or cardano or
    00:40 ethereum or um or what was the other one
    00:44 oh xrp the scam token xrp I’m always
    00:47 comparing them to uh in as priced in
    00:50 Bitcoin not as priced in US dollars so
    00:53 maybe I’m not exactly accurate but um
    00:55 most of those have held up pretty well
    00:57 which is shocking because what the US
    00:59 government officially communicated is
    01:01 that the right way the right side to be
    01:04 on those tokens is as a seller not a
    01:07 buyer so the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
    01:10 was set up this morning sorry yesterday
    01:12 it was announced and signed into law uh
    01:14 with the executive order yesterday and
    01:17 uh the executive order said the US
    01:19 government will keep and buy Bitcoin but
    01:22 it will only keep or sell these other
    01:25 assets you would you would think they
    01:26 would drop through the floor now it
    01:28 makes all the sense in the world because
    01:30 is what the US government is
    01:31 communicating one second
    01:35 here what the US government is
    01:37 communicating is that they intend to do
    01:39 exactly what the inventors of this token
    01:41 did uh of each token did so for example
    01:44 the ethereum foundation in Vince
    01:46 ethereum they issue a bunch of it to
    01:48 themselves and they’ve been selling
    01:50 their part of it ever since it’s their
    01:52 source of income they they issued the
    01:54 currency out of thin air they slowly
    01:57 dump it on the market not so much that
    01:59 it crashes the price but they just
    02:01 slowly dump it on the market and that’s
    02:02 how they make huge amounts of money uh
    02:05 same with cardano cardano issued
    02:07 themselves their own token and they’re
    02:09 dumping it on the people dumb enough to
    02:11 buy it same with xrp they issued
    02:13 themselves 100% of all 100 billion
    02:16 tokens and they have been dumping the
    02:19 that their the tokens they own on the
    02:21 unsuspecting public ever since and same
    02:24 with uh salana uh with the salana
    02:27 foundation or whatever the entity is
    02:29 that runs salana so all of those
    02:31 entities only sell their token they
    02:33 never buy their token and they never buy
    02:36 it because they don’t have to because
    02:37 they issued their token to themselves
    02:39 from the beginning and so why would you
    02:41 buy a token that you can make up out of
    02:43 thin air obviously Bitcoin is different
    02:45 no one has ever made up Bitcoin out of
    02:48 thin air even the very first Bitcoin
    02:50 miners had to expend computational power
    02:54 and electricity to mine the first
    02:56 Bitcoin now back then it was super cheap
    02:59 but it doesn’t matter matter if it was
    03:00 super cheap anyone in the world could
    03:02 have run the Bitcoin software on their
    03:03 own computer anyone could have mined
    03:06 Bitcoin back in 2009 anyone could have
    03:09 got begotten the Bitcoin for the price
    03:11 of electricity however much it cost them
    03:13 to run their computer hot with all the
    03:16 fans on full blast because that’s what
    03:18 happens if you run a Bitcoin mining
    03:20 software back in the day on a personal
    03:22 computer it would basically max out the
    03:24 computer because the computer was
    03:25 working really hard to try to uh mine
    03:28 new Bitcoin so most people just turned
    03:30 it off cuz it was made their computer
    03:32 run hot um but if you were willing to
    03:34 let your computer run hot you could mine
    03:36 Bitcoin and every day or every week or
    03:39 every month you might get 50 Bitcoin um
    03:42 and then it obviously got way more
    03:43 competitive and it got way harder and
    03:44 then eventually it got so hard that no
    03:47 no normal person could ever mine Bitcoin
    03:49 with their personal computer and now
    03:51 it’s even almost impossible to mine
    03:53 Bitcoin with at home dedicated Bitcoin
    03:55 mining rigs because like the one I have
    03:58 at home is uh the chance of it winning a
    04:01 block which now instead of 50 Bitcoins
    04:04 it only has 3.125 Bitcoins because it
    04:06 drops in half every four years the
    04:08 probability of my atome Bitcoin miner
    04:10 that does 1 trillion computations per
    04:13 second the chances of my minor finding a
    04:15 block once every 10 minutes is one in a
    04:18 billion literally one in a billion which
    04:20 means I will find a block about every
    04:22 one every 15,000 years um so back then
    04:27 you could bind with your personal
    04:28 computer now you almost can’t even even
    04:30 mine with dedicated specialized Bitcoin
    04:33 mining Hardware that is the latest and
    04:35 greatest uh which you can buy for 200
    04:37 bucks or something like that which is I
    04:39 have a couple of those at home um so
    04:41 anyway but everybody who owns Bitcoin
    04:44 worked for it they either mined it by
    04:47 expending computational power and
    04:49 electricity or they paid someone who did
    04:54 nobody in the world of Bitcoin got
    04:56 Bitcoin for free not even Satoshi
    04:58 Nakamoto who invented Bitcoin the
    04:60 Bitcoin that people believe he mined he
    05:03 mined it free and fair on the open
    05:04 market with everyone else he was running
    05:06 his computer mining Bitcoin like
    05:09 everyone else not only that but in the
    05:11 case of Bitcoin one
    05:14 second early on uh Bitcoin had a feature
    05:18 where you could uh mine it with a dual
    05:21 core processor and the invent inventor
    05:25 of of bit Bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto
    05:28 actually had a dual core process on his
    05:30 computer and he could have turned it on
    05:33 where his computer mined twice as much
    05:35 Bitcoin but he didn’t uh he did not turn
    05:38 it on so he voluntarily was mining half
    05:41 as much Bitcoin as he could have because
    05:44 he kept the ability to turn on that
    05:46 second CPU power just in case he needed
    05:49 it um you know in case he needed it to
    05:51 fix something in the network very early
    05:53 on but he actually did not want to mine
    05:56 a lot of Bitcoin for himself he wanted
    05:58 to get the network bootstrapped and
    06:00 everybody have an an an opportunity so
    06:03 even Satoshi Nakamoto did not even mine
    06:05 Bitcoin as efficiently as he could have
    06:08 he did it the slow way um and reserved
    06:11 the ability to use multi-core processors
    06:13 in case of emergency and then ultimately
    06:15 that became irrelevant and everybody
    06:17 started mining it with all sorts of
    06:18 stuff uh which was the point so the even
    06:21 the inventor of Bitcoin not only did he
    06:23 not issue himself tokens for free the
    06:25 ones he did mine he mined fair and
    06:27 square and he mined him fair and square
    06:30 without benefiting from any shortcuts
    06:33 that he even had access to so that is
    06:36 why fast forward 16 years the United
    06:38 States government says we are putting
    06:40 Bitcoin in a strategic Bitcoin Reserve
    06:42 it’s not unfair to anyone to do that
    06:45 because it’s not like you’re benefiting
    06:47 you’re artificially in uh benefiting the
    06:50 inventors of salana or cardano or
    06:52 ethereum or xrp you’re not unfairly
    06:55 benefiting the people who issued those
    06:56 tokens to themselves for free because
    06:58 the US government is not going to buy
    06:60 any of those tokens it will only sell
    07:01 those tokens which will make the prices
    07:03 go down the only thing it will buy as
    07:06 far as a digital asset is Bitcoin
    07:08 because Bitcoin is in the Strategic
    07:10 Bitcoin reserve it is not a strategic
    07:12 crypto reserve it is a strategic Bitcoin
    07:15 Reserve that only has Bitcoin in it and
    07:18 but that does not unfairly benefit
    07:20 anybody because 100% of the people who
    07:22 own Bitcoin worked for it or traded
    07:25 something else for it like US dollars so
    07:28 everyone who owns Bitcoin had an equal
    07:31 shot of of having Bitcoin everyone in
    07:34 the entire world back in 2009 could have
    07:36 gone to bitcoin.org downloaded the
    07:39 software and run it on their computer it
    07:41 was wide open for the world to see
    07:43 everyone in the world had the same
    07:45 opportunity to mine Bitcoin in the early
    07:47 days now most people didn’t because they
    07:48 didn’t think it was real they didn’t
    07:50 think it would be worth anything and you
    07:52 know as much work as Satoshi Nakamoto
    07:55 put into trying to um publicize Bitcoin
    07:60 the original inventors of Bitcoin did a
    08:01 ton of work uh promoting Bitcoin and
    08:05 trying to get people to adopt it even so
    08:08 it was really slow because most people
    08:09 just are not interested in learning new
    08:12 things or Innovative new monetary
    08:14 systems that’s just not something on the
    08:16 top of most people’s list of what
    08:18 they’re focused on um so everybody who
    08:20 owns Bitcoin got it fair and square
    08:21 everybody who got who owns or a lot of
    08:24 people who own ethereum or cardano or
    08:27 xrp or
    08:30 whatever the other one was cardano
    08:31 salana xrp and ethereum there you go the
    08:34 four the four others that Donald Trump
    08:36 had tweeted about on Sunday um they are
    08:39 not getting any special benefits so I
    08:41 don’t know why the prices of this junk
    08:43 tokens are not like totally in the
    08:44 toilet uh I don’t know people appear to
    08:48 be too dumb to realize that these tokens
    08:49 are junk or that they were officially
    08:53 snubbed by the US government like I
    08:56 don’t I don’t know why anybody thinks
    08:57 these things have value when the US
    08:60 government just communicated that they
    09:01 would only be a seller and never a buyer
    09:03 of these things um now ethereum has been
    09:06 slowly marching toward zero uh over many
    09:09 years now so it continues to slowly
    09:11 March toward zero but some of these
    09:13 other tokens they should be down 50% 75%
    09:16 at least 20% and somebody’s still buying
    09:20 them I just don’t know who these people
    09:21 are it’s crazy uh probably the dumbest
    09:24 one of all which is actually up a little
    09:26 bit is something called Bitcoin cash bch
    09:29 so the real Bitcoin is Bitcoin
    09:32 BTC uh but there’s a knockoff that
    09:35 called bch and it’s been slowly trending
    09:37 towards zero for years and years and
    09:39 years now um since it was invented it
    09:42 has lost
    09:43 99.7% of its value
    09:45 99.7 but as of the last week or two it’s
    09:48 only down compared to bitcoin
    09:52 99.5 which is actually up because if you
    09:55 were trending all the way down to
    09:57 99.7% down and now you’re only
    10:00 99.5% down then that means you’re up
    10:03 compared to Bitcoin now who on the
    10:05 planet is buying bch Bitcoin cash all I
    10:09 can figure is that people think the US
    10:12 government is so dumb that they’re
    10:14 accidentally going to buy the wrong one
    10:16 like give me a break the US government
    10:18 is not going to accidentally buy bch
    10:21 instead of BTC like that’s just the
    10:22 dumbest thing on the planet so I have no
    10:25 idea what these people are thinking that
    10:27 are buying these bizarre wonky worth L
    10:30 tokens that got invented out of thin air
    10:32 or that just don’t you know have
    10:35 anything close to the security or the
    10:38 you know immutability so you know
    10:40 sovereignty of Bitcoin like I don’t know
    10:43 why anybody’s buying this stuff but
    10:44 somebody’s buying it because otherwise
    10:46 the prices would be completely in the
    10:48 toilet and they’re only somewhat in the
    10:50 toilet um but all this stuff eventually
    10:52 Trends to zero against Bitcoin uh
    10:55 because it doesn’t have the monetary
    10:56 properties of Bitcoin and it doesn’t
    10:58 have the utility of Bitcoin so um anyway
    11:00 I don’t know who’s buying this stuff but
    11:03 people apparently are dumb enough to buy
    11:05 almost anything because people are still
    11:07 buying xrp it just it boggles the mind
    11:10 and people apparently are still buying
    11:12 bch even though it was never even
    11:14 mentioned by Donald Trump or anybody and
    11:18 again all I can figure is that they
    11:20 think maybe the US government’s so dumb
    11:22 they’ll actually buy the wrong one like
    11:25 I I just don’t I can’t fathom how these
    11:27 people think it just makes no sense to
    11:28 me but anyway have a great day everyone
    11:31 and buy only Bitcoin BTC the real
    11:33 Bitcoin BTC have a great day everyone
    11:36 thanks

Why aren’t junk tokens totally in the toilet now that they have officially been snubbed by the US government?

**Originally recorded 3/7/2025**

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