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mp of thinking about using crypto to wipe out our debt. Now if you're like me, you said, "Wait, how would you do that? How would you wipe out $35 trillion worth of debt with crypto without making things worse?" Now you might remember that I've asked that question a bunch of times, but not saying how it would happen, but asking if there's any way to make it happen. And the answer that I got from ev…

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yes. Except that what Israel is requesting and what I guess Trump is requesting would be too weak. Demanding is that they give up all the hostages and lay down their arms. Now if you were Hamas, do you think you're going to give up your hostages and lay down your arms? Because what happens to you the minute that that happens? It's not like part of the deal is for safe passage or something. It's not like you're going to get a pardon. 100% of the people who have a weapon and are in a tunnel and are working for Hamas, 100% of them are going to be in jail or killed. Why exactly would they want to hurry that up while they have hostages? So to me it's easy for Israel to say we will accept your total surrender so that we can do what we want with you. So I get why they say yes, but how in the world is Hamas ever going to say yes to that? Well, unless they have no other choice and everything's worse. And that looks like that's where things are heading. It's going to get a lot worse.

But just before I got on, apparently there was some kind of big explosion in Qatar or Qatar as you like to say in Doha. Some say it was an Israeli assassination strike on senior Hamas officials. But I heard that just before I went live, so by now we probably have better information. But we're still in fog of war. So I wouldn't believe anyth

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ing about that story yet. I definitely wouldn't believe that it was an Israeli attack yet. It totally could have been. I wouldn't rule it out, but too soon. I wouldn't jump to that conclusion. So I wouldn't trust any of the reports coming out. But if it were true that Israel figured this was a good time to take out their leadership in Qatar, well, there's probably no bad time to do it. San Mateo,…

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