Zuby: Bitcoin Battle and the Need for Hope

My views and my overall message, my core message, has not changed much since 2006. But what's happened is that the world has shifted so much that simply having common sense and having the courage to speak common sense against nonsense and to think for yourself and to encourage other people to do the same and to question the narrative... There's such a hunger for that; there's such a thirst for it; people crave it.

I'm against a mask mandate period; I don't care whether it works or not. But if you're going to do it, what data are you justifying it by? ... There are many places all over the world where anytime you are outside of your house, you're supposed to be having your face covered. Right? Outside ... Outside never, never remotely made any sense.

I think a society is generally in decline when a majority of people believe the future is going to be worse than the present.

Fear is... a very, very dangerous emotion in many ways. And I was just seeing this level of fear and hysteria—not just in one country, across the entire world—in a way I've never seen it before. I've never seen so much bizarre human behavior, ever.

I think that we live in a really immature time. I'll be honest with you. I think we live in this age of extended adolescence where you've got a lot of adults—some of them in their 50s, 60s, and 70s—who, honestly, are kind of acting and thinking like children.

Oftentimes, people don't appreciate something until they kind of get slapped in the face directly ... Something like Bitcoin is a lot easier, I think, to explain and sell to someone on who's seen their currency get devalued by 90% over a couple of years.

Human beings, from the beginning of time, as much as we are individualistic, people are also extraordinarily tribalistic.

People are not as courageous, I don't think, as they as they used to be. People are not as intellectually courageous. People are not as socially courageous.

As long as there is hope and a belief that the future is going to be better than the present, we can get through absolutely anything.

The battle to move towards, say, a Bitcoin standard is going to be a battle. It's going to be tumultuous.