Texitcoin: A New Era of Economic Freedom for Texans / Guest: Bobby Gray (Ep. 65)

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Alright. Hey, folks. This is Joe Ruse. Welcome
to another episode of the podcast, and we are coming to you live tonight from the asylum studios and bringing you the best quality political talk radio we could muster
without all the bluster.
Welcome
to the podcast.

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Folks, we got a great show for you tonight. I am really excited about this one.
Tonight, we're gonna have a very special guest with us. We're gonna have Bobby Gray,
who's gonna join us tonight. And we're gonna talk about
Texit, Texit coin,
and the future of cryptocurrencies,

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not only around the world, but here
in the great state of Texas.
So I hope you're ready for tonight's show, folks. It's gonna be a lot of fun.
Really looking forward to it.
Alright.
Now,
so, let's see. I have a lot of things that I wanted to talk to you about before we even got into the show.

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And,
that's
odd. Let's fix that.
Alright. There we go. Alright. So before we get into the housekeeping stuff,
hope you guys had a great day. I hope you guys
were able to check out last night's show. I mean, we spent a lot of time last night talking about,

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Gilmore Abrego Garcia.
And, I'll be honest with you. I'm getting tired of it, to be quite frank.
I don't think we're gonna be spending too much time on that unless something really major
breaks
over the next, few days.
But,
but it was a good show. I think it went really well, and I I think we presented a lot of information. A A lot of stuff that we already talked about, a lot of stuff that you may have already known,

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but still important information, still things that we need to talk about.
Now,
tonight, again, we're gonna be talking to Bobby Gray, who is,
a pioneer, if you wanna put it that way,
in the world of cryptocurrencies,
and, we'll do a proper introduction of Bobby once once he connects into the, into the waiting room.

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And,
I I'm really hoping that that you're gonna learn something tonight about cryptos. I mean, honestly, I'm I'm very confused about a lot of stuff with cryptocurrencies.
So, this is a a tutorial for me as well. You know,
you you know, we're gonna ask him to talk to me like I'm a five year old today because,
I I really get very confused with this whole thing.
But, but this is really exciting stuff, especially with this TEXID coin,

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and it's something that I really think is important for us to talk about and to and to understand.
So we'll be getting into that shortly. But before we do, let's get into some of the housekeeping stuff as we always do.
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You might be wondering what all this stuff is over here. We'll get to that momentarily.
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which I thought would be apropos for this evening,
or apropos depending on how you, where you're from.

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Now this is the part I've been waiting for because if you remember just a few days ago,
I told you that I had ordered, through the Alex Jones store,
because we are an affiliate with the Alex Jones store, and that's another way you can help us out. You can visit our affiliate link, the alexjonesstore.com/joe.
And you can get this wide range of vitamins, supplements, and apparel from the alexjonesstore.com/joe.

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And, every purchase that you make
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Now
having said all of that,
I told you,
I told you last week that I had, recently ordered

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the, the new product that, we're selling on the alexjonesstore.com/joe
called ultra methylene blue.
It came today,
and here it is.
Alright. Now I told you
last week
that when I received this,
we were gonna test it out on air, on the show, live for you. Alright. I've never taken this before. I don't know if you can see it on there, but the seal is still on, the the the plastic. I have not opened this up yet. I have not tried it yet.

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And,
so from everything that I've heard about this product,
you you really don't need much of it before you really start feeling the effects of it. So I'm going to take the chance right here live
on the show with you guys to test this stuff out. Alright? So let's let's do it. So what I'm gonna do is here, I have a I have a my glass, and I have some sparkling water. That was the recommendation, by someone I know who takes it.

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So we're gonna
put some of that sparkling water in there.
Put that down. Alright. Now now we are gonna break the seal
on this ultra methylene blue.
Here we go.
K.
The plastic wrap coming off.

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I'm just gonna screw it down again really quick because I'm gonna give it a shake. That's what it says to do.
And let's try this stuff out.
Alright. So it recommends
the suggested use is twenty drops. So that's one
one dropper full.
But
from everything that I've been hearing,

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if you're taking this for the first time, you're gonna wanna not do the full dosage. You wanna do just a few drops. So that's what we're gonna do. So here we go. Here's the first drop. So we're gonna do, say, five drops. Right? So
one,
two,
three,
four,
five.
Alright.

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Yes.
It is blue. Okay.
So,
alright.
Now on the bottle, it recommends
I'm stalling. You can tell. On the bottle, it recommends you put this under your tongue. But, again, some folks have told me that this stuff is so powerful, so strong
that you don't wanna do that, that you you wanna mix it. That's why we're mixing it with this,

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sparkling water. Alright. So,
Chantani.
Doesn't taste bad at all.

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Has kind of a nice minty flavor.
Alright.
Done here live with you
on the show. And when we come
as this stuff start starts working through here,
I will let you know what I feel if anything at all.

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Alright? So this is the ultra
methylene blue. Now to be honest with you, there are some folks that get, an immediate reaction out of this, and they feel like,
they feel like tingling sensations and and so on and so forth.
Alex Jones himself said that when he took it for the first time, he took a full dropper of it, and, he just felt like this rush of energy, and his skin got really hot. And he he went to the restroom, took his shirt off, and he had reds red marks. So look, not like hives or anything like that, but just from the, from the effect of it.

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From his body temperature, I guess, going up. I don't know. But, we'll find out. So, but he did a full dropper, so I only did five drops.
Now Robert Kennedy junior, by the way, takes three droppers of this.
That's a lot.
Alright?
So I don't know. And then,
I also know of somebody who had, tried this

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and, didn't feel anything.
You know? So I I don't we'll find out soon enough,
but,
but the the ultra methylene blue is available right now on the alexjonesstore.com/joe.
So you wanna head over there, you wanna check it out, and check out the other supplements that are there as well. You have, the ultimate Irish sea moss, which is fantastic. You have the ultimate turmeric, which is fantastic.

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The,
the, atomic defense that I take is is amazing. I love it. It's kept me healthy, while I handle biohazard at my job.
It, I also been taking the alt the optimal human,
which is just it it's amazing stuff. I mean, it's it's so healthy for you. I don't have the bottle with me here to show it to you, but it's this it's this powder. You mix it with about 10 ounces of water, and it gives you the steady energy all throughout the course of the day.

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Alright. So, I'm starting to feel something here. So I'll keep you up to date there. Alright.
So, again, the alex jones store dot com slash joe. And remember, every purchase that you make
goes toward helping us
pay the bills. You got 10%.
Alright?
I think Bobby is already in the, in the waiting room, so let's, let's bring him on in.

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And then, once
once Bobby gets settled in, we'll just finish up here really quick, and then, we'll get to, we'll get to Bobby. So, you can also help us out by heading over to the App Store on your phone and downloading the Rumble app.
Alright? The Rumble app is where we are. Now, normally, what we would normally do, is we would cut the stream,

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for the show and only stream live on Rumble. Right now, we're streaming on Rumble, Twitch, YouTube,
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full disclosure, I am a a shareholder in Rumble. So,
you know, of course, I would like to see more folks using our Rumble stream than than they are at the moment. But we're getting there. We're getting there. You know, our our audio stream is so much, so much,
so many more downloads and and than we do it right now on the video stream. But,
but, we're getting there. We're getting there. We picked up another couple listeners today or or viewers today on Rumble, and we appreciate them. We hope they're watching and thank him for it. And,

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that should just about do it. So if, Bobby is there, we're just waiting for him to turn his camera on and and hook up his mic, and then we'll get to we'll get to Bobby.
Hey. I didn't know I had buttons here to turn on things. There they are. Hey. There you go. There you go. Bobby, how are you doing?
I'm doing great. That's fantastic.
I'm in Texas.

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The air is clean. The sun is shining. What else could I possibly want? What better place could you possibly wanna be?
I lucked out, man. I, I was in Asia for seven years. I came back to Texas because this is where my story started a long time ago.
And then lo and behold, I find out that Texas is all of a sudden, like, ground zero for the cryptocurrency conversation in The US, and I'm like, I'm in Texas. Alright. I know know what to do. I'm here. I'm at the right place at the right time. Alright. So but for the folks that are just that are just, joining us here, just to introduce Bobby one more time. So we have Bobby Gray with us. Bobby has been involved with cryptocurrencies for a number of years. He's been also been involved in manufacturing gold, silver, and copper coins for for, what, about over a decade. And,

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he was also, just as a point of trivia, also the,
the the the the guy that
created the original
physical
Bitcoin coin. There it is. You can get it on Amazon. You can find it all over the place. You need to get well, if you could afford it, you can get yourself one.
Well, these are pretty cheap. These are affordable. Okay. Alright. There you go. These are bucks. Oh, awesome. So, so so, Bobby, thank you so much for being with us. It was really interesting that, that we were able to connect like this. So I really do appreciate it.

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My pleasure. Thank you. I'm gonna tell you honestly, I,
you know, cryptocurrencies
confuse the hell out of me. Yeah. Did you get it? Did you get rich? No. No. Actually I'm
gonna tell you honestly, I I lost quite a bit of money
because I didn't know what the hell I was doing. But, but why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself? Before we get into all that stuff, tell us a little bit about yourself and and and how you got involved in crypto and and, and what you're up to. Well, it's like you said, coin manufacturing for actually much longer than, than a decade. I started making my own coins back in 02/2008, and I saw a little ticker going across the bottom of your

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your screen there that's at Alex Jones store.
Alex Jones was actually the the largest distributor of the coins that I manufactured back in 02/2008,
for a long time. We we started off with the Lakota Crazy Horse coin.
And so that was one of my very first coins back then, and Alex sold, tons and tons of them. I actually remember that. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So so I've been making coins for a long time. I I started doing that because

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in 02/2007,
I figured out that something was very wrong in the world.
I didn't know what it was. I went down every rabbit hole I could get my hands on. And at the bottom of every, like, injustice
was always the same thing. It was always money.
And I tried to figure out if there was anyone out there doing anything about the money problem, right, the Federal Reserve and all that stuff that you probably already are well aware of. I don't wanna bore you with those details.

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And I found one guy. I found this guy, Bernard Vernathas, that started the Liberty Dollar,
and he's manufacturing his own silver currency. And I just thought that was spectacular.
So I, I tried to join it. He got busted, went to jail for counterfeiting,
and I was like, he's doing it wrong. I know exactly what to change. And so sure enough, in 02/2008, I started the American Open Currency Standard, and I started making my own money. Gold, silver, copper coins, and that's where the adventure began.

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That and that that's a that's you know, the funny thing is, like, I remember Alex Jones selling these coins. I've been I've been watching Alex Jones for many, many years, and I'm actually I'm I'm I I feel crazy that, you know, I'm actually an affiliate. The show is a fit an affiliate with the Alex Jones store, so
she's doing great. And I don't know if you heard or not, but I I tried one of his products today.

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I heard you talking about it. I've been very curious about that product. The the ultra methylene blue.
Is is your skin tingling? Is it do you need to get scratched off? I I don't know what it's supposed to be. Well,
I'm I'm gonna tell you honestly right now, like, I feel like my face is on fire.
So,
like, my eyes are my eyes are a little bit watery and and You need to take, like, a restroom break and just have me do, like, a monologue while you're gone and just let me know. We might we might have to do that. I'm not sure. But, but but, yeah. I feel like, I feel like I'm getting a hot flash, to be honest with you. So

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Well, that means it's doing something. Well, yeah. Take a couple minutes and you're like, I don't know. It's affecting the mitochondria of it.
It's recently a little mitochondria. I'm one you're somewhere in that immunocass. Is that right? Yes, sir. If you follow over, I'll make a call to emergency
responders for you. Yes, sir. Okay. That that sounds great. Alright. So let me ask you this. So,

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what exactly is because one of the projects you're working on right now is is TEXIT coin.
And I find it very interesting because I don't know if you see the flags here behind me. I do. I do. I was thinking I was amongst friends. Yeah. I was great. Absolutely are, sir. You absolutely are. Now I and and disclosure, I am not I am not a native Texan. I am I'm a transplant. I I moved here from New York City.
Okay. I've been here Philly for '8 02/2004.

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Yeah. I've been here since '2 I've been here since, well, eight years now. And, so it I I love Texas. I love being I love being here, and it's a it's a it's a privilege to be in Texas. Yeah. I'm also affiliated with an organization called the Texas Nationalist Movement. And I I was just curious if you knew anything about that organization or if you're affiliated with them in any way. I know I know a bit about them. We're not affiliated. We reached out to them in the very early days of Texacoin and and tried to establish kind of a strategic alliance or at least just bring each other,

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some awareness about what we're doing and how it's similar and how it's different.
What what I could tell you is that
they're working through the political process to establish a a particular goal,
and Texacoin is working through that same mentality
through an economic strategy.
Right? So you guys work on the the legal side of it. I don't know what all the the documents are, the signatures, the drives, the Right.

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The legislative actions that that go into the process of Texas actually leaving The United States. There's a whole other group out there that would argue that Texas doesn't actually have to leave The United States because Texas was never legally, like, brought into The United States.
So I set all that stuff aside, and I say, look. Whether
Texas leaves through the legislature or we're forced out or we just become independent on our own or we don't have to join, we're gonna need an honest monetary system here. The last thing we want is to find ourselves as our own independent republic,

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and the same bankers that hijacked The United States come down and they go, great.
We got this. Here's your new currency.
Right. And we're gonna inflate it, and we're gonna destroy the value of it. And we're gonna, like, you know, fractionally bank your money, and we're right back to where we started. I mean, I believe that at the root of everything that's wrong in the world today is money. Absolutely. And it's because we have dishonest money. You know, we have money that can be manipulated, artificially controlled, artificially created,

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given out to people that aren't you and me. I'm not connected to the money printers. I don't know those guys. That's right. I gotta wait for, like, all the way down at the end of the the, you know, river to trickle down to me. And so, man, dishonest money is, it's destroying. It's dis it's a destroyer. That's what they do when they show up amongst civilization. They destroy it by destroying the currency. We have to deal with each other. And if our money is dishonest, we have no opportunity for honest trade.

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And so whatever happens in the future, you and I both know that every empire in the history of mankind eventually comes to a a a failure. Right? That's correct. Whether that happens in our lifetime or sometime in the future,
my goal is to leave the the world a better place, leave Texas a better place than I found it. And if I can establish an honest medium exchange,
Texacoin,

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then I at least think we have a shot. And that's what Texacoin is. So I'm familiar with those guys.
You know, what what they start the way they start the discussion is usually like, look. If Texas was not part of The United States today, would you wanna join? Mhmm. And most people are like, no. No. No. No. No. Stay independent. Like, we've got a great thing here. Let's not ruin it. And so I think that if you ask an ordinary Texan today, most Texans would prefer to leave how that happens,

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when that happens, why that like, I'm not sure about all that. I would love to see that. I think, you know, smaller government is better than bigger government. I think local government is better than government far, far away. Absolutely. So I'm I'm definitely on the the anarchist side of that discussion. Okay.
But if I can contribute to that in any way whatsoever,

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it's to establish an honest monetary system for the people, by the people that actually works. You know, by doing this gold and silver stuff for a long time, I had a lot of fun. We we
affected a,
a serious amount of change.
We made money. People enjoyed it, and we learned a lot, but it's slow.
And so we have to use tools that people are comfortable using. People just aren't comfortable walking around with pockets full of gold and silver coins. It just doesn't work today. And so what I wanna do, regardless of what the future holds for Texas, is make sure that Texans

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have an honest medium of exchange that they can use to deal with each other and buy goods and services in the marketplace. That's Texacoin in a nutshell.
So if you were at a barbecue,
that's exactly how you would explain it, or would you or or or would you dumb it down for somebody like myself? I'd dumb it down. I'd dumb it down all the way. I'd say it's kinda like a scam. It's like a crypto scam. You know, you hear about these scams in crypto all the time. This is no different than any other

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scams that are out there, except you're talking to the guy that started it. Right. There you go. There you go. That's my my ten second, introduction. But what I would tell people at a barbecue
is I'd say it's a Bitcoin time machine. You know, a lot of people missed out on crypto. They didn't understand it. They didn't like it. They didn't trust it. They were dead set on this kind of thing. And I'd say, look. Imagine if you could go back in time Mhmm. To win Bitcoin with 50¢. Would you buy $10 worth knowing what you know today? And the answer, of course, is always yes.

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And I'd say, look. We have a second chance. The Bitcoin guys, the guys that created this, like,
revolutionary financial technology, they messed up. They sold out. The same banks and financial institutions that crypto set out to disrupt years ago, they own it now. It's theirs. They got it back. Right? Mhmm.
So we have a second chance.

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We need leadership. We need somebody that actually knows a thing or two about alternative and complimentary currency. I mean, the thing that I testified about in US Congress back in 02/2012
before most people ever heard of Bitcoin.
So no one's at the wheel. You know? No one's there to make sure that cryptocurrency stays true to its original mission mission and vision of decentralized digital peer to peer currency.

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And so we have a second chance. We have a time machine now where we can go back, learn from all these mistakes,
and have a do over.
That's my barbecue, that's the barbecue answer. Alright. So,
I know you kinda you kinda touched on it a little bit, but
but,
how how how are Bitcoin and Texacoin
different?

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Yeah. Well, the biggest difference is that the digital mind that we're building to actually create the currency and process the transactions and keep the network safe and healthy
is exclusively built in Texas. And that's by far the biggest difference, between us and and everything else that's out there. I don't know of any other coin
that actually has, like, a geographic limitation
on where that infrastructure

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can get built. So we're exclusively building this in Texas, and that's really the big thing that makes us different. We want control of it here
in The USA, in Texas where the energy is cheap and abundant.
You know, cryptocurrency
is,
the proof of work cryptocurrencies are all about energy. We're taking
electricity as our raw material. Mhmm. We're working it through this production process that's, you know, burning these exotic math equations. And at the end of that process, we get a handful of digital coins.

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And so Texas is the best place in The States to do that. We were talking, you know, make crypto great again long before the new administration came into office. But, but the point is that Texas is really the center of the crypto conversation in The US today, and we're exclusively building the mine here in Texas. Now you said so since it's exclusively here in Texas, what were the, like, some of the legal hurdles that you had to go through to get that to take place, or were there any?

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Well, the same legal hurdles that Bitcoin went through when it started.
A bunch of individuals get together and they say, hey.
A currency
at its very core is just a promise, and we could use anything. We could use this silver coin to, you know,
trade with each other. We could use a hand phone. We could use a flyswatter. Like, whatever we want, we can choose for ourselves. There's no law that requires us to use the US dollar.

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We don't have to use credit cards. We don't have to use Venmo or Zelle or Cash App. Like, we can trade with each other. We can barter direct. So Mhmm. There's no law. There's no application. There's no permit. There's no licenses.
You know, when I started the American Open Currency Standard back in 02/2008, people had that question as well. They're like, you gotta be crazy. The guy that started the Liberty Dollar just got arrested and went to jail for counterfeiting. What are you doing? You're doing the exact same thing.

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I'm like, no. It's it's not the same. This guy
made coins that look just like US currency. Mhmm. He called them dollars, and he was trading them at Walmart just like they were some sort of national currency.
And so what we're doing today with Texacoin
is just like what happened with Bitcoin, but it's a voluntary private currency. There's no law that says we can't do it. There's no law that says we can't build digital mining infrastructure. There's no law that says we can't market it through an affiliate program. I mean, everything that we're doing today is completely legal.

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You know, you get into questions about,
security or utility. Are you are you familiar with that type of designation and discussion? Not really.
So when people come up with crypto, it's like, hey. I wanna
make a lot of money. Mhmm. So I'll create my own crypto coin, and I'm gonna call it fart coin or tit coin or hawk 2 girl coin. Mhmm. And I'm gonna release it to the public, and they're gonna buy it. Would that be something like a meme? A lot.

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Yeah. They come along and they're like, what what what what's your coin doing? What's the utility? What's the purpose of your coin? If your coin doesn't serve any kind of purpose, then you're just kinda trying to raise money, and you're talking about a security.
So the SEC comes in and they shut those things down. And they've already said very clearly that Bitcoin is not a security because it's a currency. Well, the problem with Bitcoin is that nobody actually uses it as a currency. It's too slow. It's too expensive. It's just it's unusable.

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And so when we started this, we said, look.
All we're gonna do besides building our mind exclusively in Texas
is we're gonna fulfill Bitcoin's original promise and use it as a currency. It's like this revolutionary idea because we talk to people in crypto,
and they're like, well, what's the utility?
Bitcoin's original mission. That's our utility. Like, we don't have to make up the fluff to get the SEC off our back because we're doing what Bitcoin was supposed to do, and that's where we're starting the discussion. And that's why we don't have any kind of legal

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hurdles to jump through,
hoops to try to identify. You know, it's it's it's what Bitcoin was originally supposed to be, and the SEC has already made it very clear that Bitcoin is a currency
or a commodity, and there's no licensing or registration for it. Now would it be just since it's Texit coin, is it strictly for Texans, or can can anybody else jump in on the bandwagon with this?

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Well, you got, like, three different parts of that.
We're building the digital currency mine, the the physical infrastructure, the data centers, all that exclusively here in Texas.
That is open primarily to Texans and second of all to anybody across The United States. We also have a 10%
cap on foreign participation in the mine. And the reason for that is because we want our primary trade partners to be in Asia. 60 Percent of all crypto trading now is in Japan, Korea, and China. Okay. And so we wanna be able to trade and exchange with people on the other side of the world. Right? But it's a little disingenuous

(32:16):
to restrict or exclude them from participating in the mine and then expect them to trade with us. So we put a cap on it. 10% is open to foreign, you know, participation.
Anybody in the world is able to piggyback or jump on the bandwagon and pick up a handful of of Texacoin.
So there are two ways to, like, engage the project. One is through the mining program. Okay. And then the other one is by buying the digital asset. Anybody in the world can buy the digital asset. It's on multiple exchanges. It's wide open. There's no exclusions whatsoever.

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So we don't know who's gonna buy the digital asset, but we know that we're actively
promoting and marketing
the mining program here in Texas. We're on 66 billboards now across the state, three radio stations out of Central Texas.
I don't know if you've been to the Austin Airport lately Yes. But we've completely dominated the Austin Airport with our Texacoin advertisements.

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So we're putting a lot of time and effort into marketing and promotion because we want Texans
to understand that this is a currency that's for Texas by Texans.
You know, if you're walking down the aisle of Walmart
and people don't know what Texacoin is, like, you've mentioned it to someone or never heard of it, you know, it's all owned by Koreans and Japanese people, then it doesn't really matter. But if your average Texan is familiar with the Texas currency of Texacoin,

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now we've got something. So our goal in the next three months is to make sure that everyone across the state of Texas
is familiar with Texacoin.
And the way we're getting there is through radio, TV,
billboards, and everything else we can get our hands on. Awesome. Listen. We're looking for sponsors, by the way.
Let's go. Alright. We won sponsor things. Alright. We'll talk about that. We can't we're we can't find a single thing that hasn't worked well for promoting Texacoin.

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Yeah. Look. It's fertile soil. Everyone
wants to make money on crypto. You know? There's not a single person out there that's saying, no. No. I'm really not interested in getting rich. Not interested in taking better care of myself and my family. Not at all. I don't wanna do more for my community. Of course not. No. Why? Why should I? Of course. The easy money that you hear about, you you you can only hear the story so many times about people just getting rich off of crypto before you say, why not me? So everybody wants to get in, but nobody knows where. That's why you have things like Fartcoin and Titcoin and Hawk 2 Girl. Because everybody wants to get in, and they're all just looking for the next thing that Elon's gonna tweet out, get in early, sell it when it goes up, and then and then get out. Mhmm. Right? That's a playbook these days for making money in crypto.

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So everyone's just looking for the next thing. Right. Well, what's the next well, it's throwing darts at a dartboard. You're just you're just crossing your fingers and buying lottery tickets.
So
if you wanna make money in crypto, you can buy, like, the majors, the blue chips, you know, the Bitcoins or the Ethereums or the Shibas or the Doge, you know, the top 10, top 20 coins.
Or you can find a project that's small,

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something that's still relatively inexpensive
Mhmm.
Something that the whole world hasn't bought and sold already yet,
and you can get in
with a handful.
You know, imagine going back to when Bitcoin was 50¢ and you bought $10 worth. You've got 20 Bitcoin.
Today, you're not in any way disappointed that you you bought $20 you know, 20 Bitcoin. Not at $93,000

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a coin. You're even yeah.
So so that's what we want. And and the way that we started this project was at gun shows. You know? We're like, okay. Look. My community, gold, silver buyers, I know who they are. I know where they hang out. Let's go to these guys first. Let's put a table
together
at a gun show and see if we can talk to people about cryptocurrency.

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It's an uphill battle, man. It's hard. Mhmm. It's loud. It's noisy. They got the kids with them. They went there to buy guns or, you know, delicious
candy coated nuts or something. They're not there to learn about crypto.
Next thing you know, they're stopping at a table, and they're saying,
you know, I never got into it, but here we are. And and people have told me stories like, the first time I heard about Bitcoin was, like, 2,010

(36:05):
at a gun show at a table just like this, and I didn't buy it. And, of course, I regret that. Yeah. And so, you know, we just we started this thing just by trying to have a conversation with people. Are you interested in learning more about cryptocurrency?
You know, most people are, and that's great. Even inside that community of people that are 55, 60 five, 70 five years old,
retired military, right wing, voted for Trump, like, that core demographic that I've been marketing to for the last seventeen years with, gold and silver,

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they're interested.
They weren't ten, fifteen years ago,
but today, they've heard enough times. They've seen enough people. They've they've heard the story. Okay. You missed Bitcoin. You missed Litecoin. You missed Ethereum. You missed she like, how many times are you gonna let that thing pass by before you go, well, maybe there's something there that I should pay attention to. And what people are really scared about today

(36:55):
is they see the writing on the wall and it and they know that digital currency is the future. And if they don't figure it out now and they dig their heels in, they're just gonna get dragged into it later kicking and screaming.
So so they're starting to take the blinders off. They're going, alright. I missed it. What did I miss? And the answer is
spectacular.

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What you missed
is the greatest financial technology, revolutionary financial technology
that for the first time in a long time, lets you and me trade with each other without having to go through a bank.
We can send value from here to the other side of the world and back almost instantaneously,
almost for free. And we don't have to get permission from anyone to do that. Right. That is absolutely priceless. I don't know if you've ever had a PayPal account frozen or Venmo put your money on hold. It's a pain in the neck, man. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And somehow banks were able to insert themselves into the currency conversation. They're two totally different things. Money and banking

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aren't the same thing, but today they are. You know, if you wanna, like, send money to somebody on Facebook Marketplace, you're gonna have to do it with Zelle or Cash App App or Venmo. Which you can't do unless you're connected to a bank account.
Right. You gotta link and verify, put all this stuff. So crypto changes that. And the sad part is that because the technology was kinda confusing and because the technology got picked up early by gray and black black markets,

(38:17):
it really got a bad rep early on. Right.
And so that's why people are like, nah. It's drug dealers and money launderers. It's not for me. Well, I'm a copper coin manufacturer that had my bank account at a credit union closed
and my hundred and $58,000
frozen.
Why?
Copper coins all of a sudden are restricted activity? Yeah. They are. We don't do nonferrous metals. What does that even mean? Why not? I'm I'm stamping copper coins,

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and I can't have a bank account. You're making me have to think like a criminal.
So you just keep getting pushed along further and further and further. I mean, you know the story about the Canadian truckers. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Talked about a couple of weeks ago.
Unstoppable
money. And if that doesn't cause you to pause for just a moment and say, there might be something here that I should pay attention to,

(39:05):
then I don't know what to tell you. But that's what it is. It's a financial technology
that allows us to trade and exchange with each other without having to go through the bank instantly,
inexpensively,
right here, any amount, anytime. Now
it's dangerous. If I type in the wrong code or I choose the wrong network, it's gone. I can't walk down to Chase and get a refund. Right.

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So it's it's scary.
But
once you get past the technology hurdle and you get a little comfortable with it and you know how to, like, use the safety and best practices,
It's pretty cool, man. It's pretty cool. It is. And like I said earlier, I I did mess around with Bitcoin,
not too long ago. I lost a bit of money, I'll be honest with you, because of mistakes. You're, like misplaced it, or you just got it at the wrong time? I got it at the wrong time, and,

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and whatever I had left when Bitcoin dropped,
I lost a lot of it there.
And then,
and then through just making, like you said, just just these little off digit errors. Right. Right. You know you know, miss you know, trans transposing one letter with a with another character, and all of a sudden it's gone. It's like, oh, what the hell?
Yeah. I know. So I made I made some stupid mistakes, but I do actually own some Texacoin

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now, the digital Texacoin.
And That's great. And,
I'm waiting to get some of the physical coins. And, so I'm excited about that. And I know a few other people also who are kind of interested in that. I was talking to them today at the regular job.
So, so this is really very exciting stuff, you know, and and what it does do, it it it does bring about a bit of a self reliance.

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It does,
and it does give you some some economic freedom as well. Yeah. You know, because, again, it's not centralized. It's not you don't have to go through a bank. You don't have to go through,
you know, all the the
the hassle. Like, I tried to move some money out of out of a bank account,
to to buy some buy some Bitcoin. I had to send it to Coinbase.

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And Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And the question But then I only sent it to Coinbase. That's for sure. Yeah. And and the and the and the the the the bank had this questionnaire that I had to fill out. It was, like, two pages long, you know. Where are you sending it? Why are you sending it? What's it all about? What's this for? What's that for? You know, and it's like, dude, come on. That's my money, first of all. If I wanna if I wanna
if I wanna take it out and throw it into a fire pit and burn it, I will. You know what I mean? It's it's what's the big deal? It's it's well, it's the Patriot Act. You know? We gotta make sure. For your safety. Your safety. We gotta yeah. We gotta watch out. Your safety and national security. Yes.

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Look. I understand it because
I've had my bank account hacked, my credit card, debit card stolen. I mean, it's it's it's risky out there. Digital risk is a real pain in the neck. Right? Because it's all the time, it's nonstop, and you never know what angle it's gonna come from. And so you can be as careful as you want, and then the hackers think up some new thing. And next thing you know, your your crypto's gone or your money's gone. Oh, yeah. So it you know, it's survival of the fittest. It's it's the wild west of money and banking. But,

(42:03):
what's cool about crypto
is that the the desire to get away from the banks
is so strong that people are, like, going out of their way and trusting
participants in the community
instead of the the the professional banker. And that to me just is incredible. Like, these guys are in the business of keeping money safe, and I don't trust them. You can see what they've done to money over the last hundred and, what, twelve years, hundred and thirteen years. Yeah.

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And so, yeah, we've we've gotta we've gotta figure this out for ourself. The government's not gonna help us. They're not gonna, you know, help restore value. They've continued to erode the value of the dollar. Well, they really can't because they they don't the the Federal Reserve is not even an official
government,
organization, not even official government office. It's a it's a privately owned bank.

(42:50):
Right. And they're the ones who are dictating, you know, the the interest rates. They're the ones who are dictating the value of the dollar.
Yeah. And and so it's not even the you you can't even rely on the federal government for that. You're relying on a conglomeration of bankers
to make those decisions for you. And, of course, they're gonna do what what's in their best interest and not the best interest of the American people.
Right. Well, it's it's way worse than that as well when it comes to money creation. I mean, yeah, you got the interest rate and all that

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stuff. But, you know, they're buying bonds off of these
zombie corporations, these Fortune 500 companies that are just totally worthless, insolvent, if not for weekly cash injections from the Federal Reserve. Right. I mean, you can look it up. Like, something like half of all the Fortune 500 companies in The US are worthless companies,
like, too big to fail kinda companies.
And that's where the money begins going into circulation through that process of the Federal Reserve buying these bonds off the open market, and it's like,

(43:44):
where's my cash infusion, man? I'm not connected to the money printers. It's so unfair how they get to choose the winners. Exactly. And then you say the the money printers, and that's that's another problem too. You have the Federal Reserve, and they print money
Yep. Like it's nothing,
which, of course,
inflates prices, which have and because it devalues it, because you have more money in circulation.

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Prices go up. It makes it very difficult to live. It Makes it very difficult to pay your bills and, you know, just do the common little things that you normally do, like buy eggs.
You know?
Yeah. But,
but but something like this is something like a a a cryptocurrency that you can actually use.
Yep. That's that's
that's something that that

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could fundamentally change how we do business in the country.
Right. And especially in Texas, in a in a free and independent Texas. I mean, that's a stand alone on its own currency.
Sure. And even to have a have a crypto like a TeXit coin as a as a reserve currency.
Yeah. I mean, that's that's that's huge. That's absolutely huge. Part is

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taking the bankers out of the
exchange equation. Yeah. Think about, like, taking a hundred dollar bill downtown. Right? I live outside of McKinney, and, we've got this great little downtown area. And I take a hundred dollars down there, and I pay the first merchant that I decide to do business with a hundred bucks. You know, 3%
of that goes right off the top

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and gets handed over to Visa, Mastercard.
Mhmm. And it's gone. Right? So then $97 goes to the next business, and then another 3%.
That money circulates forty, fifty times. It's gone.
It's like playing poker and you're sitting there and the rake just keeps taking, you know, its little cut out of the pot. Next thing you know, everyone's broke. We're all looking around. Nobody came. Nobody left, and we're all out of money. Yeah. It's like, where do we go? To the banks, man. And it's and it's like, why why do we have to do that?

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What if we just
set the money down at, like, the local
credit union?
And then we use, like, a crypto around town to, like, pay each other, and it's basically free, and we know that the money's sitting down there at the local bank. We can go get it anytime we want. Like, why don't we just have localized money that allows us to to cut Visa, Mastercard out of the equation? Yeah. Are there are there

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places right now presenters in
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt you. But are there places right now where you could actually use TEXA coin?
Not directly. So phase one for us is to build the mine. Okay. Okay. So so the strategy to become, like, a top crypto is we gotta build the mine. We gotta build the foundation.
And our goal is a hundred million mega hash. Right? Means nothing if you don't understand mining technology, but just think gigantic.

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Think
huge. Think so big that the global crypto community has no choice to put to to really notice what we're doing because we're gonna be taking
their coins, Litecoin and Dogecoin. We're mining those coins to pay our electric bill. It's kinda cool. So we're gonna be so big that the crypto world cannot ignore us, number one. Okay?

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Now we've got this spectacular network getting built.
What do you do with it? Okay. Well, we wanna actually be out there using it. That's phase two for us. And that's where my background really comes into play with alternative currencies and community currencies.
So now I know how to go out there and get these towns to start using and trading it. But in talk instead of talking to them about revolutionary things like TEXID and independence,

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we're going out there and just saying, hey. Look. Let's use this digital currency. It's fast. It's convenient. It's almost free. And let's
build this thing on top of the TXC blockchain.
What's the TXC blockchain? That's the made in America blockchain. You know? China's got, you know, majority control of Bitcoin and most of the other cryptos now. This one's built exclusively in Texas. It's big. It's redundant. It's reliable.

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It's almost free to use. So let's build our community currency now on top of the TXT blockchain. And they go, oh, okay. Sounds good.
So phase one for us is to build a reliable network, number one. Number two is to actually get people to use it. That's my favorite part. That's what's coming next, very soon next. Mhmm. Now the answer to your question is, yeah, you can. You can't go in there and, like, tap your Texacoin, but click, click, click. You've turned your Texacoin into Bitcoin. You've turned it into USDT or USDC,

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and then you can use that to pay anywhere that they accept it. That's one of the things that's great about cryptocurrency.
It's not like you've got a handful of euros and pesos, and you're trying to, like, make change for groceries.
I get you. It falls so fast and so digital
where now you can take Texacoin and turn it into Bitcoin or Litecoin or anything you want.

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And it's almost I mean, it it I think the exchanges cost,
charge, like, point two or point 3%.
So there's a small fee, but it's not anything like going to a money changer or Western Union. Mhmm. So it's extremely fungible. So if you're getting Texacoin off the mine and you wanna turn it into cash, easy. Turn it into USDT, send it to Coinbase, put it in your bank account. You wanna turn it into Bitcoin so you can go shop at, you know, the gold bull bullion supplier that, that'll take Bitcoin?

(48:43):
Easy. Turn it into Bitcoin, go buy gold and silver.
So it's very easy to convert it.
That's why our focus today is in establishing the mind and not going door to door trying to bring
merchants into accepting something that's brand new that they've never heard of before. If you're already accepting Bitcoin or you're already linked in with a merchant processor that has a Visa Mastercard that you can link into your Coinbase card, tap to pay, you're done.

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So that's,
like I said, that's the focus for us now is to build the mine. Phase two is to actually get people to use the TXC blockchain
coming soon. See now, my my podcast, I we do,
value for value. Alright? We're part of the podcast two point o,
ecosphere, if you wanna call it that. Never heard of it. Okay. So,
so what we do is we we do accept

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cryptos
cryptocurrency Yeah. As, as donations, and it comes in the form of Satoshis.
Now Yeah. Now if I wanted to,
accept
TEXID coin
Yeah. Would I be able to do that without having to do conversions
between Bitcoin and Ethereum and so on and so forth? Tell people you accept Texacoin. You put a QR code up on your screen. They'd scan it. They'd pay, and that's it. Now Okay. You acquire a handful of Txicoin. What do you do with that? Option a, take it to an exchange and turn it back into cash. Mhmm. Option b, save it, cross your fingers, and see how how higher a little rocketship can go.

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But, yeah, it's fungible. It's, it's a real asset. We decided all the way back at the very beginning that we weren't gonna, like, make people hold on to TEXACoin and, like, hope that someday it has some sort of real world value.
We went live on our first exchange May fifteenth of twenty twenty four so that people could monetize their TEXA coin. Whatever it's worth, whatever the market decides, whatever value it puts on there that's totally driven by the market, it has nothing to do with us. But today, we're very, you know, happy to say that we've got a successful market

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and, I don't know, $45.50
cents a coin, and, and it's going strong. Yeah. When I've Long way ago, we're still tiny, but
going in the right direction. So when I bought the when I bought the Taxit
coin,
I bought it today.
Yeah. I think it was 44¢
Okay. A coin. So you know enough about crypto to figure out how to get into Dex trade or Bitmart and pick it up in a minute to change? It it took me a minute to figure it out, but but once It's not easy. And and we don't want it to be easy

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by design
because it's still new. Right? And it's still a risk. And if the lights go out tomorrow,
all bets are off. Right? So we want people to,
first of all, we want them to, like, go through the process and understand what what's at stake in the the mission and the strategy, first of all. Second of all, we're not really actively trying to sell Texit coin to Texans.

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Get this. Right? We want Texans to be mining it. We want you getting it for free off the mine. Okay. We wanna promote it and sell it and market it to our friends on the other side of the world in Asia. Right? I lived over in Asia for seven years, so I'm very familiar with Asian culture and Asian people. I can tell you a couple of things. One, they love crypto.
They love gambling.
They love Western culture.

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And so, look. You guys have Bitcoin.
We've got Texacoin. Let's trade.
Like, we're we'll promote Texacoin on that side of the world. So if they wanna jump on the the bandwagon and and buy up our asset because they think it's gonna go up in value, fine. There's warehouses full of cash over there. I'm gonna go in there. I'm gonna get my hands on it. I'm gonna bring it back here. I'm gonna stuff it into my pockets and some in yours and then a bunch of other people that are mining Texacoin. So we manufacture it here, but our primary market for selling it, monetizing it is the other side of the world. So what's your biggest hope for people, who buy and support Texacoin?

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Biggest hope is they have a good time, make some friends, and make some money.
You know, we're here for those three reasons. We want to establish a community. We want to,
have a great time. You know, like, post COVID,
getting people to come out of their houses and get together and break bread with each other. Like, nobody thought that that was gonna be possible.
We probably have four or five events around the country every night of the week right now where people are just getting together, talking crypto. A bunch of guys you would never have imagined getting together to talk crypto

(53:00):
are having a barbecue, and they're talking crypto. And that's cool. Right? So make some new friends, have a good time, and the most important thing of all is make some money. You know, if I could give any piece of advice right now to anybody, it's just get rich. You know, we're we're going into uncertain times.
The world is not what I remember when I was young. You know, young people today aren't thinking that they're gonna do any better than their parents did.

(53:27):
You know, the the money is getting smaller and smaller. It's going, you know, less and less far.
Get rich. We gotta find a way to get rich. And if crypto is that vehicle for us, then let's go.
You know? The the more you have, the better you can take care of yourself, the better you can take care of your family, your community.
And so being broke and just treading water all day long trying to not drown is a terrible way to live. Absolutely. And it's only when you start to, like, come out of that that you can think a little bit more long term and think a little bit more outside of your own little circle.

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And that's a powerful process. That's really powerful to see people. Hey. I got some extra money because of Texacoin. And when I hear those stories,
it just it fills my heart with joy Makes it worth it. Because that's the goal.
And we don't know who's buying it on the open market. You know, people are selling every day $20.30, $40,000 worth of Texacoin.
It's not me. It's not my money. It's coming from all over the world. And so when I hear people

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buying a new car, paying off their credit cards, or upgrading their kitchen, like, because of Texacoin,
it just it it
it reassures me that we're doing the right thing.
And so having a positive
economic benefit for people that participate in something weird like crypto is so cool. Yeah. And it's not based on any meme coin. It's not based on any pump and dump. It has nothing to do with influencers and promotion. It's all just based on the growth of our community. So So as our community gets bigger, our coin goes up in value.

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And that's because that that promise that is at the core of every currency,
it becomes stronger with the larger community. Yeah.
So So that's why I want people to have a great time, make some new friends, and fill their pockets full of cash.
Well, I hope you're right. I hope we get there.
It's happening right now every day. I mean, we've published all of our statistics live on the website. I can tell you exactly how many people we have, exactly how much money we've brought in, exactly how much we've paid out in commissions. Like,

(55:20):
the the we've we went into this project knowing
that crypto is full of scams, affiliate marketing is full of slime. And so if we're gonna do this thing, we have to do it with full transparency. That's the only shot we have to convince people to try something that
they just don't trust. You know, they gotta hear from a friend. They gotta know somebody that's gone through and has has had a positive successful story to share.

(55:43):
And, you know,
we we have to attack
the or we have to, you know, hit those objections and concerns head on, or else we're not gonna be able to encourage people to to take that leap of faith that you need to get into something confusing like crypto. That's true. Yeah. Very true.
I was looking over your website,
quite a bit
over the last day or two. And, I mean, one of the things I like about the website is that there's a lot of information on there. I mean, it's very transparent. You know, you you you do see a lot.

(56:11):
Everything you just talked about is all right there on the website. So if anybody has any questions whatsoever, you can go over to texidcoin.org.
It's a great website. Check it out. Well, one of the biggest parts about it is the team. Right? So you hear about a new crypto. You have no idea who's behind it. You know, it's
some hacker den in, you know, Serbia that's putting together some creative thing, and

(56:32):
you don't know who the people are. And so one of the most important things that we can share is, you know, just who we are.
I happen to have an extremely
coincidental unique
background in this industry
that I think makes me uniquely qualified to be doing exactly what I'm doing right now. So, you know, it's all about that story. It's all about starting a currency in 02/2008. I think it's quite coincidental

(56:57):
that somewhere else on planet Earth back in 02/2008,
somebody named Satoshi Nakamoto,
probably not their real name,
was also starting a currency. Mhmm. They went digital. I went physical. They won. Like, I'm man enough to admit that
that Bitcoin today is a trillion dollar industry. Mhmm. My gold and silver coins did very well, but I'm not, you know, crypto rich.

(57:18):
You know, just just looking back at the experiences that we had, they give us the authenticity that we need to have a real project
that's actually successful. So that's what we really, wanted to share on the website. We're real people. We've been doing this for a while. It's Sound like I just woke up a a month ago and said, I wanna get rich off crypto. How can I how can I cook up some new scam that's gonna entice people to come along? Like

(57:41):
Yeah. You gotta give them more than that today for them to pull their wallet out and go, alright. I trust it. Absolutely.
Absolutely agree with you. Now here comes the resume the, the job interview question. Alright? So so so where so where do you see tax of coin in five years?
Well, we're at least the top five crypto.
That's an easy question. You know, you look at the top 10 cryptocurrencies,

(58:05):
half of them are a joke.
Half of them have no leadership.
And so I think that
we've got the best of kind of both worlds. We've got a mineable
coin, which means that you can earn a profit by helping grow and secure the network. Right? That's how Bitcoin started. You could, like, take your home computer and install some software,

(58:26):
and then you were trading your computing power and your electricity for
a a a digital reward.
And so that all changed with, you know, Far Nations and ASICs, these, you know, supercomputers that could mine it a million times better than your computer could. So we've got a mineable coin
that's as fast and easy to use as Litecoin,
and we've actually got a team of people behind it that know how to get alternative currencies

(58:52):
to gain traction. Right. And so we're going through the same playbook that I had back in 02/2008,
which is connecting with fairs and festivals
to get them to use a digital medium of exchange as opposed to what we did before with copper, tokens or what they primarily use now, paper tickets.
You know? Then that way, the community becomes comfortable using an alternative currency,

(59:14):
and that community currency hangs around afterwards and becomes something that the town can use to help keep money local. So there's a lot that goes into all that, but you take
those concepts,
you put them all together, and you've got a top five coin.
Five years, top five coin. Alright. Well, one of our one of our listeners actually has a question, and,
they sent it over to us. So I'm gonna read the question to you, and maybe you can give us a nice answer on this one. Sure. So how did Bobby decide that mining his own coin and setting the parameters to only mine within Texas would be an adventure worth pursuing?

(59:48):
How did Bobby decide that? Well, Bobby decided that his life's work,
was going to only be successful
if he got off of his gold and silver horse and buggy
and build himself a digital currency rocket ship.
And so I've been around crypto. Like you mentioned at the beginning of our call, I I made the original Bitcoin coin Mhmm. In 02/2012.

(01:00:12):
It's the most famous coin in the world today.
I made it when Bitcoin was $5. I bought zero because I didn't like it, didn't trust it. So I've been watching this whole thing for years and years and years, and I've watched the failures.
I've seen the things that have been successful.
And so
what happened was
I was selling coins through a company called JM Bullion,

(01:00:34):
and they're the largest coin dealer in the world.
I sold through all the biggest coin dealers. I've got a factory here making coins. Right?
JM Bullion stops buying our best selling coin. And I'm like, what's this about? And and just incidentally, the best selling coin that we were making for Jane Bullion was the Donald Trump coin.
And so they don't wanna buy it anymore.

(01:00:56):
I'm like, why not? It's our best selling coin. No. No. No. We wanna start selling coins to a different market. We wanna sell coins to young people.
I'm like, okay. First of all, young people don't buy coins. They just don't. Second of all,
99%
of the coin buyers out there are, like, the same demographic. Like, I could rattle it off very quickly.

(01:01:16):
And if we're not selling the coins that people want, then what are we doing? And that's when it hit me, like, a ton of bricks that the world's just not making any more gold and silver coin buyers. You know? The the
marketplace of people that buy that stuff is is aging.
And so,
what are young people interested in? They're interested in digital collectibles, NFTs,

(01:01:37):
meme coins, in game, you know, rewards,
in game currencies.
This is the stuff that is intriguing to most of the young people of the world today.
And
so while you and I might not be totally comfortable with digital, you know, metaverse type stuff, kids are. And so if children of the future, the future's gonna be digital.

(01:01:57):
Yeah. Now
I'm kinda uniquely qualified here because I've got my foot in both worlds.
I'm manufacturing gold and silver coins,
but at the same time, I made the original Bitcoin coin in 2012.
'20 '17,
I started manufacturing these cold storage coins. So this is an easy way
to take a digital asset and put it in the palm of your hand. Mhmm. So if you like the idea of owning Bitcoin, but you don't wanna trust it to Coinbase, put it on a cold storage wallet, lock it up in your safe, and forget about it. Right?

(01:02:28):
So this is kind of a bridge between these two worlds, digital on one side, physical on the other. So this is what I've been doing. I've been creating these tools
to
to build a bridge between these two
opposite ends of the value spectrum, physical on one side, digital on the other.
And so in the middle of twenty twenty three with a production

(01:02:48):
contract
floor to ceiling as much gold and silver coins as I wanted to to sell and make, I just stopped. I said, that's it. I'm not doing it anymore.
I gotta do it. Go digital, and I'm the right guy for the job.
Now here's the part that's interesting for you.
This happened
when I was listening to a podcast and somebody said, Texit. And I'm like, woah.

(01:03:11):
What's Texit?
It's time for a national divorce, I hear. Mhmm. Wow.
This concept
is beginning to enter the national discord. Right?
All of a sudden now, my old brain would have been like, texted, I'm gonna I'm gonna design and manufacture a silver coin to commemorate that idea. Right?
No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. I'm gonna go digital. Why? Because we need a great story.

(01:03:36):
You know? Like, anything that's gonna be successful, there has to have a really great story. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got all these things, but I didn't have
texted. Mhmm. And I said, that's it. That's all I need.
This is a currency
for the future independent free Republic Of Texas.
And that's when it all came together.
And I said, alright. I got a background in IT. I've got a building that I built that's got big three phase power. I mean, you need giant power to have these ovens to melt metals, gold, silver, all that stuff. Sure. I build it. I basically build everything that I need

(01:04:08):
to mine my own coin.
I'm just doing it the old fashioned way, and I just stopped. And it took me a couple months to figure out exactly how to do it, but,
but that is the how and the why I built myself a a digital currency rocketship,
because I think that I am uniquely qualified to do this based on my history and experience in alternative currencies

(01:04:30):
and the fact that I've lived between these two worlds. And this is the most important one.
I've never done this before.
I don't have a string of failures behind me in the realm of making up meme coins. I've never done affiliate marketing before. I don't have a string of scammy, slimy,
you know, pump and dump products that I've been trying to to market for years. I've just been making coins since 02/2008.

(01:04:53):
Right? So, okay, I'm jumping ship a little bit from, you know, one vehicle to the other, but,
but that's the transition. That's what happened. I saw a text in, and I said, we need our own currency. We're gonna become our own country.
I think it's gonna happen in our lifetime. I agree. Yeah. Knows how to do this.
Let's go.
You know,

(01:05:13):
it's in in speaking of Texit,
and and the and organizations like the TNM,
and I said before, I'm a I'm a member of the Texas Nationals Movement. I'm also the deputy county coordinator for,
for Maverick County.
And, we're still building a team here, so, you know, we haven't had any official meetings or anything like that yet, but, you know, we're working on we're working on that.

(01:05:35):
So
I I firmly believe that that Texas is going to be a free and independent
nation in and of itself
within my lifetime.
And Absolutely. And
and even if it's not, I wanna take steps now to ensure that that will happen for the next generation coming up. And I think I don't and even if it's not. Hate to interrupt you there, but the running's on the wall, man. Look. For sure. If the election went a different way, we'd already be out the door. I agree. Yeah. The the concept of texted,

(01:06:08):
changed
or or, you know, took a little bit of a back seat when Trump was elected. And everyone's like, woah. Woah. Woah. Why would you leave? We're about ready to make America great again.
You and I know that that political football gets kicked back and forth, and the pendulum swings one way, and then it's really hard back the other way when it snaps back. Yes. And so hope that that's the the best thing that could happen right now is we have four years of abundant wealth and success.

(01:06:36):
We stock up on our resources, and then we get ready for whatever it is That's gonna come next. That the overlords have planned for us next. Whether that happens in the next four years or after that, I don't know. Nobody knows what the future is gonna bring. Right? That's right. But I can tell you right now
that, like I said, every empire fails,
and the guys that, like,

(01:06:57):
really run the show, like, okay. Maybe they're a little bit quiet, but they're not sitting here saying, ho
guess we lost. I guess
the the the, you know, banking overlords that control everything or we're just gonna give up and and leave. They're gonna all get on a rocket ship and go to Mars, and we're all just gonna live happily or after. The likelihood of that being true
is zero.

(01:07:19):
And so, okay, we've got a we've got a moment to catch our breath. Let's do some important stuff right now. Let's get done as much as we can. Let's prepare for for the unknown that's coming our way knowing full well that we've had great presidents over the years. Mhmm. And look at where we've ended up, always in a worse position sooner or later. Exactly. And so what and now or next cycle or after that, it's happening. It's happening today.

(01:07:42):
You know? It's like people say, well, when's the dollar gonna fail? What are you talking about? We've lost 99%
of our purchasing power over the last hundred and twelve years. How much how much more can you fail before you say, okay. We failed. Right. Like, it's done.
You know?
And and living overseas for seven years gives you a totally different perspective on all this as well that you don't see when you're in The US with the blinders on.

(01:08:04):
So it's already here.
We just don't we just haven't admitted it yet. You know? So
Well, one of the things one of the points that I I try to make on on on the show when whenever the subject comes up is that, you know, we may have it okay right now for the for the next two to four years. Alright? Because you don't know what's gonna happen at the midterms.
Anything can anything can happen. They could steal the election in the midterms.

(01:08:27):
Republicans lose the house, lose the senate, and then what you're gonna have another two years of the Trump administration of just
political persecution after political persecution,
impeachments,
all that type of stuff, all that lawfare going on.
And then if,
say,
I because the way that the administration is going right now, I I I can't see them losing

(01:08:50):
the president losing the White House in four years. I I I I just I don't see that.
But
If that has died, bro, we're one bullet away from this whole thing going a totally different direction. Of course. Absolutely.
And,
but the whole my point was, though, is that the whole thing is based on executive
actions, executive orders. There's nothing being codified into law anymore to make it that much more difficult to change.

(01:09:15):
For ex so so, like, Obama,
through executive order, undid things that Bush did.
Trump undid
Obama's executive orders with his own. Right. Then Biden undid Trump's, and now Trump is undoing Biden's again.
It's like so every four years,

(01:09:36):
there's no stability.
Right. It changes every four years. So so how can you possibly think
long term
when knowing that, okay, well, all the tax regulations are gonna change in the next four years when the next president comes in because he's gonna undo everything the previous administration did. And they're gonna repeal whatever they have to repeal, you know. So so there's so much instability,

(01:09:58):
and I think that is also part of the reason why Texas needs to leave
the American Union.
Right. Because it's just not feasible. It's like it's like, national divorce. I don't know if you read Jason Fry's book on national divorce.
It's a great book. You should definitely check it out.
We had Jason on the show very early on when we first started the show.

(01:10:20):
Great conversation we had. So if you wanna check that out, you can it's like episode six or something like that.
Yep. But,
but great book, National Divorce, Plan for Peace.
He really outlines it very well, and it's like, you know, you're in abusive it's you look at, like, in a marriage situation. You have a husband and a wife. There's only so much
abuse

(01:10:41):
that can be taken either way before one of the parties leaves.
Right. You know? And no matter how good it is right now,
like you said, we don't know what's gonna come down the road. We don't know what's gonna happen two to four years from now.
Stock
up, prepare yourself, get ready to make this move, and separate. Yep. It's like most like most people who who go through a divorce,

(01:11:02):
they're you know, they don't exactly broadcast that they're looking to separate or divorce. Right. They go and they they they they get that secret bank account. They start squarreling money away. And then when the time comes to leave, they have something to fall back into. And Yeah. So they can stand on their own once they are out of that situation.
That's exactly what we need to be doing right now during this period, this this quote unquote golden age that Right. That the administration

(01:11:27):
is trying to bring in,
and and and plan for that future.
You know, I've I've I firmly believe in the in the in the T and M and what they're trying to do through the legislative process. You know, right now, we have we have more
we have more elected representatives in the state house who have signed on to the Texas First Pledge than we have at any other
time. Sure. There are over there are about 700,000

(01:11:49):
members of the Texas Nationalist Movement right now. Yep. You know, which would be a great market for the TEXID coin, by the way. So, They'll learn slowly but surely. You know, when they're ready, they'll engage it.
You know, the our our biggest challenge right now is just education,
destigmatizing
crypto, demystifying it, because still a lot of people are are scared about crypto.

(01:12:12):
And so,
you know, we'll we'll work on it. We'll work on it through education, and we'll find all the alliances and friends that we can and, and hope that they understand that,
money is at the root of all these things. And we've gotta work on our,
goal of of freedom and and personal liberty
from every single angle. Mhmm. Hey. Would you be willing to, sit down with the the president of the T and M, Daniel Miller, and his podcast?

(01:12:37):
I I know I know the I don't know him very well, but I've been working with his staff. And,
we've got some complications
in the crypto realm that have caused,
us to not be able to forward that conversation. Okay. The last time we really went knocking on the door was more than a year ago, and we were brand new back then. And I they had some advisers. They're like, no. No. It's a scam.

(01:12:59):
I'm like, I understand. It's okay. Give us some time. Let's let's establish some credibility. Let's get some traction, and then let's, you know, circle back around when the time is right. Well, the sense that I got for a chat, I'm in for a chat as well. Okay. Well, yeah. Because the sense that I got when I was talking to some of the folks affiliated with the organization,
that you and I were gonna sit down and talk because they were very interested in in hearing what you had to say. So

(01:13:20):
Well, we've we've come a long way since we last talked. And, and so whether, you know, they like what we're doing or we can create some coins for them as we've discussed in the past Mhmm. There's definitely an opportunity for us to to coordinate our activities and,
help each other with our momentum. Alright. Well, I'll I'll I'll try to be your middle man on that and help you out with that. Thank you. We'll we'll get you going. Thank you very much. Alright, folks. So we are talking with Bobby Gray of, Texit Coin. So don't forget to head over to his website, texitcoin.org.

(01:13:48):
We have it up there on the screen,
and, get yourself involved in this, folks. This is this is a really good deal.
Don't miss out on the opportunity to get on some get into on something very, very big. This is this has the potential to be something huge. Alright? On very new ground floor. Yeah. You know, we're 1% of the way towards our goal right now, so,

(01:14:10):
you know, it's not day one for us. I think we've got a long enough track record now to show that we're actually serious,
especially if you're around the Dallas Fort Worth area, you know, we've got events. Like I said, every night of the week, there's something going on somewhere where we can actually meet and connect with people, look them in the eye, and see if we're we're serious about it. What we're doing is it's not easy. It's not automatic, and it is a risk. So you have to be comfortable

(01:14:31):
engaging that conversation inside the realm of crypto. Like I said, if the lights go out tomorrow, like, I don't know what to do. Like, I guess we're going back to gold and silver coins.
But if you're willing to get out of bed and do something
and you believe that money is an important thing for us to take ownership of,
then this is a conversation that, that we wanna have with you. Absolutely agree a %.

(01:14:54):
Alright. So, Bobby, we're gonna we're gonna wrap this up here at at this point and say goodnight to the folks. So if you want to, if you wanna stick around and chat really for a few minutes after the show, just, just you could just turn your camera off and just hang out, and Sure. And and then, we'll I'll once I once I close the room, we'll, we'll be here.
Yeah. No. It's dude, this was great, man. I appreciate you taking the time out to be with us, and, thank you again so much for what you're doing. And, you know, let's, you know, keep Texas, you know, that's

(01:15:22):
well, what I usually say at the end of the show is let's make Texas independent again. So,
so let's let's do that and,
and, so I'll be with you in just a minute. So you can just shut the camera, and I'll,
I'll be with you in just a minute. Alright, folks. So Bobby Gray,
great conversation, folks. I hope you I hope you enjoyed that, and I hope that was I hope you learned something from that. I learned I learned quite a bit, actually, and and, you may may not have looked like it, but I was taking notes on my on my little tablet here. Great information. Look, I'm a newbie when it comes to cryptocurrencies. I made a lot of mistakes in the past, but, you know, I'm I'm

(01:15:58):
I feel really good about this, and, I'm excited about it. This is I'm not a financial adviser, so I'm not giving you financial advice in any way. But, but look into it for yourself. Check it out. Look. And I I I I bought a bunch of, Texacoin today on on the exchange. So,
check it out.
It could be worth it. You don't wanna miss out on an opportunity

(01:16:18):
like this.
I kick myself for missing Bitcoin.
Alright, folks. So let's give our shout outs to our executive producers, Wayne and Rosanna Rankin. Thank you so much for what you do. Also to our producer, anonymous Angela, thank you so much for all your help with this and, and everything that we've been doing here of late. So really do appreciate you. Folks, don't forget to check us out on our socials at on x at Joe Rouz. On Instagram is not Joe Rouz.

(01:16:45):
Facebook, the podcast with Joe Rusciello,
and minds.com
at JoeRus.
And, don't forget also on Truth Social
at Joe Rus. So, we are going to, say our goodbyes here. And, folks,
don't forget,
let's make Texas independent again.

(01:17:06):
Go podcasting.
Keep a steady stride.
No show tomorrow.
We'll see you on Monday. Have a great weekend, folks. Good night,
and goodbye.

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