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things. Do you know the equation for power? It's your powers of influence, like how good you are as a persuader, multiplied times your reach. So if you're the greatest persuader in the world but you never talk to anybody but your five friends, you don't have any power. And if you had an audience of a hundred million but you didn't know how to persuade anybody, also you wouldn't have any power. But…
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Here's one of the weirdest things about being a hypnotist, and by the way I think all hypnotists will back me up on this. Hypnotists can tell you the truth right in front of you and you'll never believe them. So we don't have to hide it. So I can be completely public about my ability to control the whole country and you'll just say, "Oh, that's a joke." Only hypnotists can do this. We can hide right in public. Nobody sees us. And it's a good thing otherwise you would kill us all.
All right. Do you think that I can tell you how to find out the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin? Give me the challenge. How many think that I can right now tell you how to find him by probably the end of the day? By the end of the day, do you think I can do it? Who says I can do it? Challenge me.
Some say yes, many say no because the smartest people in the world have tried to solve this and so far no luck. Right now, maybe this has already been tried so you have to give me a fact check. Has anybody tried this?
By my understanding is that we have the 2009 introduction of Bitcoin in writing. In other words, whoever created Bitcoin wrote an introduction of what it was and why it was created, right? Well, you're welcome, Michael.
Right, so if that's true, if the original writing exists and we can say that must be the creator, you know that you can just run a program against the writing and find out who wrote it, right? Did you know that? How many of you knew you could just run a program against the writing and you can? It's just like a fingerprint. If this person has written anything on social media before, and I guarantee they have, I'll spot him in like five minutes. Yeah, and those programs exist.
This is how – give me a history check – the name of the book was "Primary Colors" and the author was anonymous and thought he would stay anonymous but he was identified by his writing style, correct? That's correct, right?
And you want to know a little weird thing? Have I ever told you that I always end up in the middle of history? The gentleman who wrote that book, the anonymous one, Klein was his last name. Yeah, it was in my house just like, you know, months before that. Like he actually interviewed me and so I actually knew him. Weirdly.
"Primary Colors," I think it was "Primary Colors," right? An anonymous book about the Clinton years or the Clinton campaign or something. But anyway.
Do give me a fact check. So here's my claim. The writing from the creator of Bitcoin is available to anybody. It's public knowledge. You could just run it through the program and you can know who he is by tomorrow.
Now somebody's saying there's a whole white paper and that would be even better, right? The more you have, the more likely you're going to find them because peo
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ple's writing style is just like a fingerprint. Yeah, Joe Klein was the author of "Primary Colors." Thank you. Is that, by the way, is anybody blown away by that? I'm looking at your comments. I was expecting some surprise but, you know, we could find him guaranteed if we wanted to. But there's either – so there's a couple of things might be happening here. I can't believe nobody thought of this…
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