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April 16, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Mike Adams announces Brighteon.io decentralized, serverless, uncensorable speech platform...
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Welcome to today's interview on Brighteon.com.
I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon, coming to you from the great state of Texas.
And as you know, we are building the infrastructure of human freedom.
And we do this thanks to your support at our online store, HealthRangerStore.com.
We take whatever profits we can squeeze out of that store and we put it into projects like the one that you're about to hear about today.
And we have the founder of Bastion, Daniel Sachkov, joining us to tell us all about this because we have a big partnership announcement.
This is the official announcement today of the launch of Brighteon.io, which is built on the Bastion ecosystem.
In fact, it uses the entire Bastion ecosystem, the same content, same usernames, same technology, same reputation, cryptocurrency, same blockchain.
But now it has a Brighteon front end, and we're bringing in a whole new audience of Americans and English speakers all around the world.
So here to join us today to tell us about Bastion, the peer-to-peer decentralized platform that is really uncensorable, by the way, is Daniel Satchikov.
Welcome, Mr.
Satchikov.
It's an honor to have you on today.
Thank you for all that you're doing.
Thank you, Mike.
Thank you for having me.
This is, I think, the third time that we've done an interview, and I was so impressed with what I learned about Bastion in our first couple of interviews that you and I talked behind the scenes to build Thank you so much for having faith and courage and the engineering competence to make this happen.
We're really blown away by it.
Thank you.
And it helped that I was your listener for at least three or four years now.
Is that right?
I'm very familiar with your ethos and your credibility.
That played a role, of course, in making it move fast.
Yeah.
Well, did you know that back in, I think it was 2011 or 2012, I was a guest with Alex Jones in his studio in Austin.
And I said at that time that we need, for human freedom, we need a peer-to-peer decentralized platform for free speech.
But the tech didn't really exist back then.
But you've now really matured and, I would say, perfected that technology.
So you're like, I've been looking for you and your team for so many years and so happy to finally make the connection and make this happen.
Yeah, I mean, a lot of people do say that, especially people who understand what's going on in the world or have the techs having this or business.
Acumen.
A lot of people say that they were thinking about it.
I mean, when this idea first came to me, it was a solution to a problem.
I was looking for a solution to a problem.
And every time I spoke with people about censorship, I mean, first of all, we started the project, which was like 2016, really.
Not a lot of people grasped the gravity of the situation.
They thought that the censorship to many people means batting a YouTube account.
It is real censorship, but that's not what we're up against.
What we're up against is that once you start, you cannot really stop.
You have to go all the way.
And I think all the way means, like, really disrupt communications on the Internet and change the Internet from, like, reverse the paradigm.
Right now, they have to ban things.
But I think they have to reverse.
In order for them to survive and get to where they want to, they have to reverse things and say, okay, we're not going to ban things.
We're going to allow things.
So Internet will contain only sites and viewpoints that are allowed.
Right.
And everything else will be banned.
That's right.
By default, I mean, they won't have to ban everything else because just so much of it, they're just going to reverse the paradigm and say, well, this is allowed and you're not, and that's it.
Yeah, we're seeing that with all the so-called hate crime legislation.
We're seeing it in Scotland.
We're seeing it in certain states in the U.S. And they have all kinds of excuses for, quote, hate crimes.
They could just invoke anything.
Transgenderism, anti-Semitism, anti-feminism, whatever.
They call it hate speech, and then they ban it.
But your platform, bastion.com, is a peer-to-peer decentralized ecosystem that has no central servers.
And when people use the app, and it's a free downloadable application, and they can get that from brightion.io slash applications, by the way, then it does not even rely on domain names. It's peer-to-peer traffic. So...
Even if they turn off name servers, your software still works.
Yeah, there are some core components to the Brighteon.io solution that we put together.
The first component is the fact that it's non-corporate.
This is really, really important.
Because from the beginning, I'd like to think that I try to think systemically about things as opposed to, you know, ad hoc and a knee-jerk reaction.
The knee-jerk reaction to censorship is always like, well, let's create the freedom-oriented social media.
It's like the, you know, quote-unquote libertarian kind of first response, you know, build your own Facebook.
What people don't realize is that the whole corporate infrastructure is already putting you basically at the mercy of investors of the corporation, board of directors.
Then there's all kinds of other ways to censor corporations.
It's actually a bad way forward.
What I thought about is a non-corporate project and I involved a number of top engineers.
I'm not a programmer myself.
Even though I do program and I'm a math geek and I do program in Matlab or Python or C++, but I don't build applications.
So I inspired some really experienced programmers to work on it and we started this project.
So non-corporate is really important because there's no intellectual property.
This is crucial because this is a major defense against the human factor.
There's always a way to make somebody cooperate, for most people.
I'd like to think I'm not like that, and I will definitely stand by that, but who knows?
People are not the strong point.
So when the project is non-corporate, has no intellectual property, if something goes awry, you can always fork it.
There's a language of programmers.
Fork it, maybe create a copy.
And you can just run it on any principles you want, those original principles of Bastion.
So this is actually how Bitcoin works.
That's one of the big innovations of Bitcoin.
The defense of the Bitcoin, because Bitcoin has also programmers.
I mean, they are very specific people who sign the releases and we know who they are.
But the defense is that if something, if they try to manipulate something, then you can make a fork and you create original Bitcoin and that's it.
So it's like this kind of thing where it's very hard to grab for sensors.
They're going to try to grab onto it, but it like splits, you know, it goes between the fingers.
Yeah.
And so Bastion, and now bragtion.io, using the Bastion core, the codebase is essentially distributed.
You've got hundreds of nodes running, and you've got, I don't know how many million-plus participants all over the world who are contributing to it, and it uses blockchain technology for the content.
So, no one can come in and retroactively delete someone's posts from the past, for example.
Is that correct?
Am I understanding that correctly?
Yes, but it's very important to know that Bastion is not like a free-for-all platform.
There are very simple rules.
Very simple.
So, one is no pornography allowed.
The second one is no direct threat of violence.
And then there's basically no promotion of illegal drugs.
So this is not a darknet situation.
That's not something that we would ever want to work on.
But these rules are not enforced by us.
I have no power to remove anyone from Bastion.
Neither do any of the programmers.
The way it works is the community itself, the people who are using the app for a long time, they gradually get this power to vote on content that needs to be removed.
And again, the rules are very, very simple.
They're exceedingly simple.
So there's nothing vague like hate speech or anti-Semitism or whatever that could be used as kind of a boogeyman or something vague.
It's very simple rules.
And people who are part of the platform for a long time, the logic is that a lot of things about Bitcoin and blockchain and Bastion and Brightion.io is about motivation.
It's about incentives.
So the logic is that if somebody invested a year or two years into the platform of active participation, right?
most of those people will not want to destroy it.
I think that's not a crazy assumption.
That's a logical assumption.
No, I'm right there with you.
And I've loved using Bastion.
And now, of course, I use Brighteon.io.
Go ahead and show my screen.
I want to show our audience what it looks like.
If you just go in your browser to Brighteon.io, you can see an interface here and some of the different types of content on the left and then some of the Brighteon sites.
But you can see people posting things.
There's a post about Paul Craig Roberts right there.
There are all kinds of amazing users on here and all kinds of amazing content.
Now, this is just using it through the browser, brighttown.io.
Now, obviously, that depends on the domain name resolving.
But if you type in slash applications here, which I shall do, Here's the application's download page.
So you can download it here for Windows, Android.
There's the APK file for your de-Googled phone.
There's the Linux file.
And I know that the Mac version is waiting on approval from Apple.
Is that correct?
Yeah, there's something with Apple.
I mean, Apple is kind of centralized.
I don't want to disappoint all the iPhone and...
But Apple is the most centralized organization.
It's actually more centralized than even Google.
So it's very difficult with that.
But you got to the core, I think, of the censorship resistance.
So we already talked about non-corporate nature of the project, absence of intellectual property.
Open-sourced code is another very important pillar that people can see.
So there is a repository for Bastion, and there's actually a separate repository now for Brighteon.
So Brighteon is kind of a fork of Bastion, not of the blockchain, but of the project, because there's some unique parts about the interface.
And that's really important.
There could be a multitude of these front-end forks created.
Now, what we are headed toward, I believe, as I said, is the internet will be heavily censored, maybe even policed.
What excuse will be used for that?
I don't know.
But I think it's very transparent as to what it could be, right?
It could be any kind of a hacker situation.
It could be a kind of a war situation, a terrorist act.
Who knows?
It doesn't really matter.
In Brazil, the Attorney General ordering Elon Musk to censor the ex-accounts of journalists and, I think, judges as well.
And Elon Musk is currently saying, no, I'm not going to censor them.
But As I've told my audience, why should that decision even come down to one man?
Because on Brighttown.io, there is no one person that can censor.
You can't censor it, Daniel, and I can't censor it.
If they issued an order forcing you or me to remove something, we cannot do it on Bastion.
We cannot do it.
It doesn't work like that.
It's just like, okay, if they issued an order to Bitcoin developers, Bitcoin core developers, to ban some address, They cannot do it.
They could only do it by releasing a new codebase, which would be immediately forked and they would just ruin their project.
So it is very important.
There's a safeguard there.
And what I think is going to happen rather than, you know, I think it's going to be lawfare, but also I believe that it's going to come to a situation where internet will be censored through probably something like DNS. So for viewers, Listeners, DNS is a system that resolves the domain name.
So when you enter brighteon.com or brighteon.io or bastion.com, it looks to a central server.
There's a finite number of these servers in the world.
They're highly, highly centralized.
It takes like a flick of a button to turn off the access and then all of a sudden the domain name will not work.
And then the internet still works.
So we had a situation, just as we were launching Brighteon.io with you, there was a situation where in part of Canada, Internet was quote-unquote down.
Okay, so most people perceived it as internet down because none of the websites worked.
But in fact, internet was operational.
And when they went into Bastion, so we had these posts of bewildered people writing, how does this work without the internet?
I don't get this, right?
So there were a number of people from Canada that actually posted that.
And so that's actually great to hear.
We had a similar situation when there was a kind of a huge disturbance revolution in Kazakhstan, where incidentally I was born a couple years ago.
There they also turned off DNS. It was not working.
We had videos from users in Kazakhstan where the only thing that worked was the Bastion desktop application.
Wow.
Because the way it works is that it doesn't use centralized internet at all.
Sebastian Desktop application, I like to call it like the Swiss knife of censorship resistance, and it's constantly evolving.
But at this point, the way it works is when you download it to your computer, it will not use any of the legacy centralized internet.
It will connect directly to the nodes around the world.
And so it doesn't care anything about the domain name resolution or anything like that at all.
Yeah, so in other words, what you're saying, the translation is that if the internet kill switch is activated, which could take down the domain name servers, all websites would be offline except the ones they allow, such as cdc.gov or whatever.
Exactly.
But TCPIP, the underlying protocol of traffic packets, would still be operational because governments need that.
And your app, Bastion, also Brighton.io, works on that protocol and does not need domain name resolution.
Now let me show you a headline that is very alarming.
Here it is from Reclaim the Net.
EU Disinfo Lab proposes expanding ICANN operations from phishing and malware to target disinformation sites at the domain level.
This is what you've been warning about, what I've been warning about.
What they're saying is they want ICANN, which is the top-level grandfather of all domain control on the planet, they want ICANN to start yanking domain names of sites accused of, quote, disinformation.
So here it is.
This is the domain name apocalypse.
Exactly.
And, you know, at some point when you look at the situation, even years ago, it seemed a little bit far-fetched, but it was not.
It's kind of funny to use this, but when you read Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, what did he say?
You have to basically exclude all impossible explanations.
And whatever is left is going to be the true explanation, no matter how crazy it seems.
And I think that if you really, you know, play it, you know, war game it or scenario, play scenarios, and you realize that they have to go all the way.
They cannot stop part of the way.
It's just not possible because the logic of time doesn't work in their favor.
Because if somebody wants...
Somebody realizes what's going on, what happened in 2020, what's happening in the world, and every day we're getting major wake-up calls for people.
Once they see that, they cannot go back.
So yeah, there are many people who are sleeping, who don't realize what's going on, but the people who woke up, you can't bring them back anymore.
So the process is irreversible.
So based on that logic, they have to stop it.
Because if they don't stop it, eventually there will be a lot of people.
And then what are they going to do?
And so my assumption from the beginning, the assessment that I made was that they're not going to turn off the whole internet.
Because I studied it and I realized that, you know, this is not what they want because it's going to create chaos and chaos unpredictable.
There needs to be controlled chaos.
They don't want uncontrolled chaos because a lot of the services that they rely on, you know, basically for enforcement or tracking, they also use internet, right?
So they cannot turn it off completely.
They have to make it so that people don't have access to the information.
And there's an important thing that, you know, I realized because I'm a math geek.
I have been since I was a kid.
If you study game theory, it's a branch of mathematics, that's kind of iffy.
There's some things that are probably overstated there, but there's something very interesting there.
Game theory is essentially a mathematical theory about how we play a game collectively and we win.
How to win collectively as opposed to by yourself.
And I think that's a perfect kind of metaphor.
Maybe we're in a very difficult, dangerous, and maybe even bloody game.
But it's still kind of a game.
I like to look at it that way.
Not to make light of it or not to diminish it, but you have to be that way.
Kind of one of the...
I think one of the strong sides of, in general, a Christian civilization is that it looks at the world differently, and probably too philosophical, but this is important for me.
It's different from the way, let's say, an Eastern civilization, like a Hinduist looks at the world.
They look at the world as full of suffering.
We just have to end it.
Let's go into nirvana.
Christians look at the civilization as, you know, this is a quest, right?
This is a quest for us.
And yeah, we're challenged.
Yeah, it's a difficult time.
But it's also not a boring time.
And game theory says that, mathematically, strictly speaking, mathematically, if you have different players playing a game together, their chances of winning increase exponentially if they're able to communicate in some way.
Okay?
Once you cut off the communication, your chances go to zero.
That's exactly what we're dealing with.
They have to stop our communication.
It's a matter of math.
It's not a matter of fear mongering or prophecy.
There may be prophecies, but this is a different story.
What I'm talking about is a matter of pure logic.
They have to stop communication.
They cannot shut down the whole internet.
Therefore, they will probably do it on a domain level.
And the whole application, brighteon.io, a fork of Bastion, is also built on that.
Application also has other tools.
So I don't want to, you know, it connects directly to the nodes.
That's already very big, but it has other tools.
For example, application has Tor protocol built into it.
You don't need a Tor browser to use Tor protocol.
When you go into the Brighteon.io application, you're bypassing a domain name service, but you also have the option of using Tor, which is a whole another layer of privacy and kind of protection of your personal identity, which I think is really important.
And there's other things being added.
The application, there's a team of developers working on overcoming deep packet inspection.
This is a Chinese-style censorship.
And in China, by the way, Bastion desktop application works now.
This has been tested.
But if, let's say, there was a deep packet inspection, they would try to target specifically Bastion.
Even that can be overcome.
So, we're in a race against time, but the good thing is we've been running for a good seven years now and we're fairly far ahead.
It doesn't mean that it's a slam dunk, but I am highly confident that the Bastion application will survive what is coming.
Absolutely, and this is critical.
This is why every person watching this, this is an urgent action item.
You won't be able to connect with us on X. You won't be able to connect.
Even Brighteon.com can be taken offline easily because it's a centrally hosted server, well, multiple servers of video content.
You need to get onto Brighteon.io right now, go to that address in your browser, reserve your username, Make sure you keep your private key because that's your password.
That's your seed phrase, essentially.
And that gets you access.
And then download the app because that's what insulates you from the internet kill switch of taking down domain names.
Now, Daniel, let me show you this headline.
I'm sure you're familiar with this.
U.S. to ban Russian antivirus software.
Kaspersky...
The labs, right?
The antivirus software has been very famous, you know, really great antivirus software for, it seems like 20 years plus, is now going to be banned because, well, because it's Russian.
This is like the tennis organization banning Russian tennis players or NASCAR banning Russian race car drivers, which is insane.
There's a lot of anti-Russian hate right now in the West.
This is the latest.
This is banning Russian software.
But they also banned TikTok, right?
So the entire U.S. Congress or most everybody supported the TikTok ban.
And they said, well, that's from China.
So they've created a precedent now to ban software and then to ban platforms that they don't like.
And Brazil is threatening to de-list, well, to prevent X from even functioning on all telecommunications companies in Brazil, by the way.
So here we have three cases of governments going after these platforms and software, creating an urgency to migrate...
Look, for those of you listening, if you have an audience, you have friends or family members that follow you, you need to migrate onto Brighttown.io because that's the only thing that's going to be reliable.
Or, you know, Bastion, it's the same ecosystem.
You can't trust YouTube.
You can't trust even X. You can't even trust that Brighttown.com will continue to function if it's targeted by the government.
Get onto Brighttown.io and that's how you're going to be able to receive communications from us and talk to people.
It's critical at this point.
I mean, these aren't theories anymore, Daniel.
It's happening every day.
Yeah, it is happening.
You know, I would be glad to be wrong, honestly.
Despite all the effort that went into the project, I would be glad to be wrong.
But I knew right away that there was a very little chance of that.
And I would say this, you know, I know, Mike, that your audience is actually global, because it's funny enough, I came to the States when I was 15, right?
I've lived in America for...
I'm natively Russian.
I was born in a country called Kazakhstan.
That's now called Kazakhstan.
But I heard about you first.
There were some translations from Russian sites.
I was like, wow.
And then I started following you.
But the point is that for a global audience, this is a global trend.
And this really raises my eyebrows as an analyst, as somebody who likes to try to look at trends and look at things systemically.
Because things that are happening in America Are very similar to things that are happening in China and very similar to things that are happening in Russia.
It's very suspicious that they seem to be these enemies, these mortal enemies, yet they're doing the same exact things.
Starting in 2020, with the medical madness and all this stuff, they seem to be doing very, very similar things, just justifying them differently.
But, you know, it really doesn't matter what the reason that somebody gives you, right?
What matters is why they're doing it.
We know TikTok is not being banned directly.
It's not being banned because it's addictive to kids.
It is addictive to kids, so it's got a strong component of danger in there.
But so is Instagram, right?
It's being banned for other reasons.
Same thing, like, you know, when they ban something in China, it's, well, maybe they actually don't even explain anything there anymore, so they're past that point.
But what I'm saying is that try not to, you know, try not to believe what you hear.
And I think that your audience probably knows that very well, but it seems that people will...
Be guided by that.
But then when a situation like a war, all of a sudden they'll believe everything just because it's a war.
Well, now they're going to be telling you the truth.
Well, if they lied to you this whole time, why would you think they're going to give you the truth about that?
So this situation is global.
It will be happening everywhere.
Well, our audience is very well informed.
I would argue that our audience is the most informed Western audience in the world.
And they immediately knew, you know, when the situation with Ukraine began, they knew that the West was just constantly lying, lying, lying.
And, you know, by the way, Zelensky has announced there's going to be a new counteroffensive.
Like, every summer, a whole new counteroffensive.
And I guess some of my posts got translated into Russian.
I was a little shocked to even discover that because I was just stating obvious things like, hey, Russia has better hypersonic missile technology.
Russia has better artillery, Russia has better electronic countermeasures, and so on.
I'm just pointing out the obvious, and compared to the British Navy, the aircraft carriers don't even work, and the German industry is collapsing because of a lack of energy, because of the destruction of Nord Stream pipelines, and so on.
I'm just stating the obvious here.
And yet, somehow, stating the obvious is banned.
On every platform in the West.
And it was the same thing during COVID. If you stated the obvious, like, you know, hey, wait a minute, ivermectin seems to be working for people.
Oh, you're anti-science.
You know, they would ban you.
And now the situation with Israel, it's the same thing.
Oh, you criticize Israel in any way whatsoever.
Like, stop bombing food aid workers.
Oh, you're anti-Semitic.
You know, it's insane.
But they'll keep coming up with reasons to ban us.
But because of what your team has built, they will fail.
I mean, this is the underground railroad of information freedom that you've built.
This is going to change the world.
Yeah, and I think that what people have to realize, maybe even very perceptive people, even your audience doesn't fully realize yet, that you've realized and I've realized is that...
In America, for example, it's a little bit deceptive because it seems like there are alternatives, right?
And there are alternatives.
There's, for example, Rumble and there are supposedly Twitter.
I don't like to call it exclusive.
Twitter is supposedly a little bit more free.
But this is all very deceptive.
And I explain this because the corporate...
Entity will always end up trying to totally control you.
That's right.
That is just their nature because at some point when it's only about getting critical mass, remember how Facebook was a free platform.
It was.
Remember how Twitter, you know, Jack Dorsey once upon a time said that if there was a free speech wing of the free speech party, it would be Twitter.
What a joke that became.
That would be it, right?
WhatsApp was founded by Brian Acton, who is big for freedom of speech, but it doesn't matter.
It really doesn't matter.
Even if you have the best people, that's why I didn't go and start a corporate platform, even though financially it's a lot less lucrative.
But the point is that if you start a corporate platform, that's it.
You're not going to control it.
It really doesn't matter who's in charge because corporation will always be brought to heel.
And I think in America, people don't realize that they think, well, we have this, we have that.
There's some freedom.
Corporate freedom will be taken away in a heartbeat.
You will not even blink and it will be gone.
Well, that's already happening.
We've seen the government weaponized against certain corporations, such as now Elon Musk and Twitter.
You know, all kinds of investigations and audits and things like that.
But I do want to bring up The P-Coin question here.
And I think you could educate me a little bit more.
I don't know a lot about P-Coin, but I know it stands for pocket coin, and I've seen that its price...
Here, show my screen if you would.
It's right here.
Its price has gone up substantially since we started announcing Brightown.io.
And I've described it as a reputation coin and a mechanism.
One way is it prevents bots and trolls from just spamming the network with a bunch of videos that overload the bandwidth and things like that.
But can you explain what PCoin...
The practical role that Pcoin plays in the ecosystem, because I'm not about speculation.
I never encourage people to buy crypto and like, FOMO, get in, it's going to go to the moon.
No, I hate that crap.
Tell us what Pcoin is and why it's practical and functional for the Bastion or Brighton.io ecosystem.
Yeah, so when you talk about a social platform, you have to really...
Separate the problem into different pieces.
We talked about the corporate censorship piece.
Corporate censorship is when investors replace the board of directors, fire everybody and do what they want.
That's clear.
Another corporate censorship angle is legal, like Brazil government will issue a threat.
Elon Musk can probably argue with them, but most people cannot.
For Bastion, corporate censorship has nothing on us because even if the issue is a threat to me, yeah, that sucks for me, but there's nothing I can do.
It doesn't matter.
I don't control the network.
I'm more of a popularizer now.
It's a little bit like Bitcoin.
There's nothing that you could do.
Corporate censorship is one layer.
Technological censorship, we talked about, right?
The absence of central servers, the desktop app, now the financial censorship.
What people don't understand also is that they look at finance, they don't understand that finance is the main weapon of the world.
That's how the world is controlled, through finance, not through technology, not through warfare.
Those are all supporting means.
Finance is the means of control.
So financial censorship is the most severe censorship.
So even if they cannot, for example, technologically shove something down, they will look to financially censor it.
What does that mean?
Any social platform requires value creators to earn something.
For example, there are hundreds of nodes around the world.
These people burn electricity.
They use up their machine.
They use up the bandwidth.
And can we rely on their altruism?
I mean, the reality is that you will never have enough people.
There are lots of great people in the world, many altruistic people.
But to run a machine on your dime for years and to find many of those people is impossible, right?
There's a problem even in economics called the tragedy of the commons.
It's that when there's a common resource, people tend to take more than they give.
That's the nature of this world, of this fallen world.
So to solve this problem, this is where Bitcoin and pocket coin is modeled exactly like Bitcoin.
There's some differences, I'll talk about it, but at the core, the developers, we took Bitcoin.
The first version, people don't know this, I don't think I ever discussed this, the first version we tried to build on Monero.
But it was not really possible to overcome a lot of problems because the ring signatures, they hide too much stuff.
We don't even know who made the post or who liked the post, right?
It's just not possible.
So we switched to Bitcoin, which is the next best thing.
It's a very robust code base, but the Bitcoin solved An amazing problem.
Most people will say, if you ask them, even savvy people, what did Bitcoin solve?
They'll say, it solved the double spend problem.
So when digital money can be copied, if it's digital, it's a file, you can copy it and send it to people.
Bitcoin solved that problem through blockchain.
That's the genius of Satoshi or whoever that is.
Now, Bitcoin solved more problems than that.
Once it solved that problem, it actually gave a solution to another problem, which is crucial.
How do people who support the network actually get value without having PayPal, Stripe, or bank account?
Because those things will be censored in a moment.
If Bastion had a bank account, right?
It would be censored.
Oh, absolutely.
If it had a PayPal, it would be shut down.
So, PocketCoin, the beauty of the Bitcoin that they gave us, the PocketCoin, that rewards people.
So, who creates value in Bastion and Brightion.io?
It will be note holders.
Clearly, people who hold notes create value.
Well, they can earn PocketCoin.
That's built in.
They don't need Visa, MasterCard, banks, nothing.
It's a completely parallel economy.
Okay?
Authors.
Authors need to make money.
It's not possible to create high-quality content and have a full-time job, usually.
Very rarely, I don't think I've ever seen that.
And that's one thing I realized when I started asking.
Before that, I thought, well, blogging is just your talk.
But then I realized that it's a tremendous effort to produce high-quality content.
And so, Pocketcoin, again, gives us the ability for bloggers to earn.
They earn rewards from every blog from a mission.
They can also earn rewards through advertising.
There's something being built called decentralized advertising exchange where advertisers can come and say, I want to advertise on your channel.
And it's kind of like a smart contract in PocketCoin.
The author gets paid and the advertising is posted in the channel when the author approves.
Again, PocketCoin gives out without any recourse to the banking system, which we know is a tool of power.
I mean, it's not just a tool of power.
It's the source of power.
So the beauty of it is that it can reward everybody.
It can reward developers who work on the project.
So it creates a whole separate system from banking.
Importantly, Pcoin, there are swaps out there where people can swap Pcoin for Bitcoin or swap it for Monero or whatever else.
Yeah, it's traded on two exchanges.
DigiPhoenix, it's an Asian exchange.
I don't think as an American you can trade there.
But there's another exchange, Tabbit, and they wrote that Americans and Canadians can trade there.
I think they trade for USDT. I don't get involved much with exchanges, but it is traded on exchange.
But I will say this, that also in Bastion and Brighteon.io, on the left you have a list of categories.
One of those categories is Bitcoin peer-to-peer.
And that's my dream is actually that we bypass the exchanges.
If you're crypto savvy, or if you're looking to learn the mechanism of buying crypto in exchange, you should do that.
You can do that.
I'm not like super advocate for exchanges because it knows your information.
Ultimately, exchanges will be censored, just like domain names.
For now, you can use exchanges, but my dream is that it goes into peer-to-peer.
And one of the things that Bastien does is there's a category, Pecoin peer-to-peer on the left.
Once you choose that category, there are many ads.
Now, the thing about it, it's You have to, it's at your risk because we don't check every ad.
There's no staff in Bastion.
So you write in chat.
Right, here's an ad.
Here's another ad.
So these are people offering to buy or sell people.
Yeah, so you look for an ad.
What is this?
There's actually a spam post right there.
If you scroll down, you will find, yeah, well, this...
If you scroll down, you will see a post.
Somebody's spamming this channel.
There's one next one.
If you scroll down, that one right there, that's a seller that I've seen.
And there are a few others.
So you write to them in chat and you start with small quantities.
The big thing is when you do it that way, you don't submit your information to the exchange.
And this is, I think, helpful.
Now, exchange can be easy as well.
The point about pocket coin, I would call it more an advertising or attention token because its main value is advertising.
And if you think about it, That's really different from most of cryptos.
You know, you and I discussed this.
I think cryptocurrency is an amazing invention.
I mean, I used it for the project of my life, part of Bitcoin.
But we also know that most of the cryptocurrencies are completely useless.
So most of the coins exist there just to basically speculate, and then they have nothing behind them.
That's right.
Because the way cryptocurrency becomes useful is basically with the Metcalf law.
It's a law that says the value of the network grows exponentially with the number of users.
Yes.
So what are these networks?
Like a telephone is a network.
Social media is a network.
So a pocket coin is as valuable as the audience that can see the post because you can advertise on Bastion only with pocket coin.
It's just built in because it's natural.
It's the same blockchain.
That's the idea.
So people who are at value, which are again, note holders, authors, developers, they earn pocket coin.
People who advertise give value to PocketCoin.
Now, there will be other features for PocketCoin, maybe some premium accounts or something, premium features, but the core of it is that you can use PocketCoin to get attention to your posts.
You can always think about it as advertising-backed currency, because what is backing fiat currencies at this point?
Only the power of the state.
Yeah, it's a powerful backing sometimes, but it can wane.
I mean, all fiat currencies die.
What is backing Bitcoin?
Well, what's backing Bitcoin is the years of network effects.
The fact that it's on every exchange, it's in every crypto store, there's lots of stuff sold for Bitcoin.
That is what's backing Bitcoin.
But most of the other cryptos, when you look at crypto, you have to ask yourself, what is backing this crypto?
Because the technology is not enough.
The crypto technology is very easy.
There's lots of it now.
What's important is, what is backing?
For PocketCoin, the backing is the advertising.
It's the attention of people.
You can always convert it into something real, which is like grow your audience or sell your products and so on.
Well, Daniel, we need to have this conversation.
I'll go ahead and share this with the audience.
I love the fact that Bitcoin is a practical, blockchain-driven cryptocurrency that has intrinsic value in the Bastion ecosystem, or Briteon.io now.
But what I want to do, and I've been working on this with my devs for over a year now, and we've run into a lot of obstacles with other coins, but we would like to accept Bitcoin as a payment I'll go ahead and announce this teaser to the audience.
That's my intention.
I want to work with you or anyone that you would recommend as a consultant to help us do that because we want to add this practicality to it where somebody can trade P-Coin for food.
Clean, organic, storable food.
I think that As we find more practical uses for crypto, and I would hope that we could also accept Monero and Bitcoin as well, and who knows, maybe a couple of others.
But this is how we help crypto succeed, is we create practical uses for it that people can translate into real goods and services.
On your platform, it's advertising.
They can use Bitcoin to pay for advertising.
But what if we could also accept it in our store and people could trade it for food?
Yeah, I think this is the biggest challenge of the crypto space is the fact that some people say, well, the cryptocurrencies, they went in the wrong direction.
It's too much speculation and so on.
But being a realist and student of history, I will say that this is inevitable.
If you look at every major invention in history, it was always like that.
Think of railroads.
I mean, 19th century.
It was the biggest, you know, scams and speculation.
But in the end, railroads, I mean, they were kind of important, you know?
So same thing was with internet and with lots of other things.
So it is inevitable, I guess, that there's a lot of this froth.
But I think we and people who are listening to you who are very thoughtful generally, right, I would think, because you educate them and they found you.
We have to think about the world differently.
We have to think about cryptocurrency overcoming this barrier.
Yes, we know Bitcoin already overcame it.
Bitcoin is kind of a digital gold, even though I still believe that gold and silver are better in many ways.
But there are major uses.
Bitcoin overcame it.
It has real backing, real use.
But there's a lot of effort being thrown into building more and more tokens that have nothing behind them.
And I think the brains are, you know, the best brains and efforts have to be between, you know, everybody.
We have to think about how we create, how we give more backing to crypto so that it's actually backed by something.
Then the great taking, right, as David Webb wrote, is not going to be so easy.
Because it really assumes there's no escape hatch.
And the same thing with freedom of speech.
It only works, what they planned only works if we fail.
That means that the communication is cut off.
If the communication is not cut off and we have means of, we have money that has some real backing that cannot be just deflated in one day, then they lose.
That's just the way it is.
So I don't think it's hopeless yet.
I agree with you, and this is the core of decentralization.
That's why I launched my show a year ago, Decentralize.TV, that focus on this, because I also realized that decentralization was the way we win, and that means maintaining the ability to communicate.
Having decentralized money Which is, you know, Bitcoin and crypto and Monero and so on.
Having decentralized speech, which now your platform, is the best solution that I've ever seen in the world.
And that's why we partnered with you, Brighteon.io.
But also we need decentralized food, right?
So that's why I encourage people to grow food.
Do your own sprouting.
Save your garden seeds.
Know how to grow food.
Have backyard chickens.
And that's why the governments are trying to crack down, at least in the West, on backyard chickens.
Or in Europe, they're trying to close down the farms.
They're destroying hundreds, if not thousands, of farms across the Netherlands and Ireland and the UK and so on.
It's an attack on the farming infrastructure.
But if we have this decentralization of resources, then we become resilient and we maintain our ability to be independent thinkers and not to depend on a government, you know, CBDC handout, universal basic income with all their censorship and all their universal basic income with all their censorship and all their vaccine mandates and all their other, you know, bull crap that they're pushing.
It's all related.
And that's the word...
Yeah, that's the key word you said, resources.
I'm always like, when I talk to people, I always try to explain to them that we're in a war, clearly.
I mean, it's a different kind of war, of course, but it's a war because our existence is at stake.
I mean, I think that's very plain at this point.
It's not hyping it or overstating it.
But what wins wars?
Ask yourself, look at the history.
Because the way we conditioned and the way history is taught us, We tend to think about like heroism, right?
Heroism wins wars.
And I'm all for heroes.
I think the power of individual is massive in history.
But if you really study the wars, you understand that in the end, the war is one with resources, right?
Very rarely, if ever, somebody wins a war without significant resources.
It's just that's the way it is.
And so what we're trying to build for people is to have ability to have some resources.
So when the time comes, there are resources for us to rely on to survive and then kind of fight back.
And that's where communication is a resource, right?
Food is a resource.
Bastion was originally designed and envisioned as more of an app store, if you will.
Bastion Social is one of the applications, but there will be many others.
So developers already created a concept It's called Barteron.
Barteron.club is the domain.
It's going to go into the desktop app soon as well, but it's being developed.
So what that is, is ability for decentralized barter.
Barter doesn't mean just barter.
It means crypto, if you want to do silver.
When you make an ad, you can actually say Hey, you know, I'm going to sell this milk for silver.
And so then it's just like in Bastion and Brighteon.io, you go in and there's a private chat.
There's no, like, we don't do payments, right?
Barteron doesn't do payments because it's not a corporation.
It's about connecting people.
It doesn't even things like that we designed an algorithm for a three-way barter, which I think is immensely helpful.
Oh, wow.
You know, sometimes the two-way coincidence of once will not happen in the geographic area.
But when you do a three-way, then all of a sudden, the possibilities are much, much larger.
Yeah, absolutely.
So, Bartron is a sophisticated app that it's free to use.
It doesn't charge a commission.
I mean, basically, no corporation has another auxiliary benefit, right?
There's no, like, earnings reports, and there's no need to grow.
And grab money at the expense of users.
It's like it's just there.
Barteron is there.
You use it.
And there'll be other apps, I'm sure, because I know you have, like, your store, HealthRanger store, can be put as an app.
In that store.
And that means that it's also completely uncensorable because it'll be part of the desktop app, part of the blockchain.
And it's not even that difficult.
You can use JavaScript to develop it and create that app.
So you will go in, it'll be Bastion, there'll be Brighteon, there'll be Health Ranger Store, Barteron, and there'll be all these apps that you can use all in one place with one private key.
And then you don't need the centralized internet at all.
Well, what I would really like, I mean, what you have built is really extraordinary, and I can only imagine the technical hurdles.
You know, to build a decentralized ecosystem is so much more complex than just having a centralized hosting server.
So whatever your team has done is absolutely brilliant.
I can't even begin to ponder.
I know you've spent years.
You've dedicated a lot of your professional life to this.
In my mind, the next application that I want to see, and this may not be possible because it's very bandwidth heavy, is I'd like to be able to have my podcast, like this broadcast, like to have an app that's just feeding these videos out to everybody across the Bastion universe.
If they want to pull those videos, they can watch them there.
Because, like I said, I think that Brighttown.com is ultimately going to be censored.
But if I could push videos out through a decentralized peer-to-peer system, and somehow if it could handle that, that's like a dream come true for me.
That's being built.
I didn't mention this, but in a desktop app already, you can download videos from your favorite authors, and you can become a source of those videos for others.
So that supports the network.
Also, even if all the servers are down, Basically, the app users become the servers.
So that will grow eventually into file sharing.
It's kind of like the concept of torrent.
The problem with torrent is that it's disorganized.
You know, it's kind of hard to find things.
And also, there's no compensation.
In torrent, there's no financial economy.
So in Bastion, there is a financial economy, so there'll be an incentive.
Let's say that you put out a massive video file or some other file or your large language model.
And people want to be seeds for it, right?
They want to hand it out.
Well, in Bastion, it's then very easy, based on various mechanisms, proof of storage and others, to basically say, okay, I downloaded Mike's large language model.
I can give it to you, but send me some pocket coin.
And that becomes a solution because now you're using all of the computer space that people have, all of the bandwidth that they have.
Yes, it will probably not be as fast as Google or whatever, but that's not our goal.
Convenience is a slow death.
And I'm not saying it should be inconvenient.
If you use the Brighteon.io, you will see that It is a very convenient app, I think, for what it is.
But it will never be compared to YouTube because of the billions they put in there.
Think of it that way.
The billions they put in there is to buy you.
It's like the cheese in the mousetrap looks very free.
But it's actually the most expensive cheese in the world.
It's just that you pay after, you know, with your life.
So, yes, if you hand out, you know, basically hand out the files in a decentralized way, it'll take somewhat longer to download.
Is it a worthwhile inconvenience to be free of the yoke of the centralized, you know, tech and bankers?
I mean, I think that the answer is a no brainer.
Yeah, for more and more people, they are wanting to off-grid from the centralized control grid and express their own freedom.
And by the way, I should mention, if you sign up at brighteon.io or at Bastion, there's no KYC. You don't need to send a driver's license.
You don't even need to use an email.
So there's no identity required.
You can be completely anonymous.
Yeah, no phone number, no email, no nothing.
And that's the principle stand.
It creates problems because of bots, but this is the arms race that the Bastion and all the Bastion ecosystem will be in.
And I know we're fully aware of that, that the race will be against bot networks because they're going to try to attack because of the lack of the personal identification.
But that's a challenge we will solve.
That's a challenge that has solutions, especially in the crypto space, because there are solutions against spam specifically that I love how you've integrated Bitcoin into your ecosystem to give it a reputation factor as well.
And there's also a reputation score that is earned.
I was checking my reputation score on your network the other day, and I was shocked.
It's like 4,000 or something.
I didn't even know it got there.
Well, it's probably not the right to call it reputation because it doesn't necessarily mean that it's good or bad.
All it means is that likely, if a person has a high number there, that means they're likely not a bot.
It's just a defense against bots.
If you come in at first, you have some limits.
You can make five posts per day.
You actually get 30 or 40 comments.
So it's generous, but you can't upload video right away.
That's because we don't know.
The registration is so simple.
It requires no personal info.
But as you build up, as you comment and you post, gradually people give you high ratings.
Eventually you will get to a point where this number is high and then your other functions open up.
That's a way to defend against bots.
I love that.
I think that's brilliant.
I mean, actually, we adopted something like that years ago on Brighttown.com.
We didn't allow unlimited video posting on day one.
You had to actually earn video views in order to have the right to post more videos.
So that was like a really simple version of what you're describing, but I think you've really perfected it.
Well, Daniel, we're out of time for this hour, but I want to say how blown away I am by what you've built.
It's, I mean...
This is going to impact the world, the future of humanity in such a positive way, because free speech, like real free speech, decentralized personal power to speak and reach people is not available through Twitter.
It's not available through any big tech site, but it is available through brighttown.io built on the Bastion core engine.
So Daniel, thank you so much for what you've done.
You've made a huge contribution to humanity.
Thank you, Mike.
And thank you for, you know, really being thoughtful and understanding the technology.
And I invite everybody, all the like-minded people, you know, to join in some way.
Because remember, this is not a project owned by me in any way, right?
I'm just a popularizer.
You can join if you're a developer, if you're, you know, whatever your skill, join because this is our common cause, right?
And there should be more platforms like this, right?
If more people develop something like that, we'll be better off.
But if you have skills and time, join in.
Because, you know, we've built the foundation, but kind of the real battle is beginning.
That's right.
That's right.
And for those who want to follow me, my username is HealthRanger on the platform, as you might imagine, but we also have Brightown and Natural News and others.
And we will rely on Brightown.io as our emergency comms system.
So when the Internet kill switch is activated, you need to fire up your Brightown.io or Bastion app, and that's how you're going to be able to keep in touch with everything that's going on in the world.
Thank you so much, Daniel.
It's been a pleasure to speak with you.
I'm really excited about this project, and I can't wait to help you make it grow.
I'm spreading the word to other influencers and publishers and people I know, and I've had a lot of interest already.
Some people want to do what we did with Brighton, so I might introduce you to some other big influencers who want to do something similar.
It could be interesting.
Makes perfect sense.
Thank you for having me.
Okay.
Thank you, Daniel.
Have a great day.
And thank you for watching.
Again, the website to sign up is brighteon.io.
And remember, it is peer-to-peer, decentralized, and uncensored, but even uncensorable.
As a result, there's going to be a little bit of spam from time to time, but the algorithms that have been created by the team are very good at getting rid of the spam bots.
So check it out.
Join up.
It's free to join, free to use.
You can start actually earning Pcoin and earning a reputation there, and most importantly, having a backup channel of communications.
Really thrilled to be able to announce this.
It's been all ready.
You know, we announced our AI large language model project at brightown.ai, and now we have this project at brightown.io.
And guess what?
There are more surprises coming this year as well in the area of tech.
So thank you for watching today.
I'm Mike Adams, the founder of brighteon.com.
God bless you all.
Take care.
Let me share with you what's new at healthrangerstore.com.
We've got an amazing new product, and it's called Golden Milk.
I've got some here on the desk showing you.
Those are some of the new products.
Well, some back in stock.
Cocoa Energize is back in stock.
That's got the mushroom blend in it, including the lion's mane mushroom.
We've also got the ahi flower oil in the green bottles there.
That's the best plant-based oil that's kind of like fish oil, but it's not from fish.
It's only from plants.
But let me tell you about this golden milk.
If you could show my screen, this organic golden milk superfood blend, you just blend it with water and it makes a delicious drink.
Let me show you the ingredients right here.
Look at this.
Coconut milk powder, date sugar, all organic, organic curcumin, turmeric, root powder, ginger root powder, ashwagandha powder, there's a big immune system modulator right there, and organic cinnamon powder.
So think about these key ingredients.
It's turmeric, it's ginger, it's ashwagandha, and it's cinnamon, and it's sweetened with date sugar, which is naturally low glycemic.
This is a truly amazing product.
It's super delicious, and it's just loaded with very healthy nutrients.
Available now at healthrangerstore.com.
And we've also got, back in stock now, Organic Coco Energize.
And this has the mushroom blend in it, so not only does it have lion's mane mushroom, but as you can see here, it's got...
Maka powder, reishi powder, chaga, cordyceps, turkey tail, lion's mane, maitake, and shiitake mushroom powder.
Also sweetened with coconut sugar.
So just an amazing blend.
If you love the taste of chocolate and you like the benefits of these medicinal mushrooms, then that's your best product right there.
Coco Energize is back in stock at our store.
And then we also have Organic 7 Treasures Mushroom Powder available at the store, healthrangerstore.com.
This is available now, and it's got the same mushroom blend in it, but it's just concentrated or focused on the mushroom blend without cacao or any other sweeteners or ingredients like that.
So be sure to check that out.
Now let me tell you about two infrastructure projects that are available right now, free of charge, for you to use.
The first one here is Brighteon.ai.
So we've released our first artificial intelligence large language model.
It's available now.
You just register with your email address right here, and then you can download the language models free of charge.
They're called Neo.
You can download them to your local computer.
You can run them.
These are special large language model chatbots that we built that are built on base models.
The first one is based on Phi 2.
Another one's coming based on Meastral.
And these allow you to have your own local chatbot with special knowledge in herbs, nutrition, food, gardening, permaculture, all kinds of things like that.
And we're continuing with more training and more waves of training, but also an expanded data set.
This is free for you to use.
We're giving it to the world.
It's non-commercial.
It's open source.
There's no ads on it.
There's no surveillance.
You use it locally, and it's a massive knowledge base, kind of like a Noah's Ark of knowledge that you can have at your fingertips on Mac, Windows, and Linux systems.
So that's all available at Brighteon.ai.
And then check out this.
We've just announced this site, Brighteon.io, which is a decentralized peer-to-peer Social media type of platform.
And you're seeing posts here from some of the other users right now.
I have no idea what they posted, but there's all kinds of stuff from all over the world.
The point of this, Brighteon.io, is it's built on the Bastion platform.
So it's completely decentralized.
There are no central servers.
It doesn't need any domain names to function if you download the app.
And you can get the app at brighteon.io slash applications.
That will take you to the app.
And once you run the app, even if the internet kill switch is activated and domain names no longer function, the app will still work.
This is our emergency comms backup system.
So just go to Brighteon.io, download the app, and then follow me.
My username is HealthRanger.
We also have Natural News and Brighteon and so on.
Follow me there, and then if something bad happens, the Internet domain name system goes down, but TCPIP is still working.
You'll be able to get our emergency messages through brighteon.io, the application.
Or if you don't want to use the app, and if domain names are working, you can just go to any web browser and type in brighteon.io.
I strongly encourage you to reserve your username now on the platform because it's going to get a lot more popular.
So get your usernames, save your secret private key, which is basically your password, to be able to log in.
And you can start using this platform.
There's no censorship.
It's not even possible.
Even the founders of this system, even the people who built it can't kick people off of the system because it's structured based on decentralized blockchain technology.
That's what powers this whole thing.
This is really a revolution in freedom of speech.
And I can see a lot more people moving over to this because Twitter is not really free speech.
Elon says it is, but it isn't.
There's a lot of shadow banning, a lot of deplatforming, a lot of links that are banned.
In fact, Brighteon links are banned from Twitter right now, still.
So use BrightTown.io instead and make sure that you let your audience know that you are on BrightTown.io if you're a podcaster or an influencer or a business and that this is a way they can always hear from you even if the internet kill switch is activated.
Now finally, back to our store, HealthRangerStore.com and our new foods here, Superfoods, Organic Golden Milk Superfood Blend.
All of this is related.
When you purchase our products at HealthRangerStore.com, Not only are you getting the healthiest, lab-tested, certified, organic, heavily scrutinized, pure, pristine ingredients, no junk, no garbage, no fillers, you're getting the best superfood products in the world, you're also helping to support our other projects like Brighttown.io and Brighttown.ai.
And these are infrastructure projects for human freedom.
We're giving you back the tech, free of charge, that you can use to empower your knowledge, to empower your voice, and to help defend yourself against censorship and against, well, nefarious governments that are trying to shut down humanity.
So this is all related.
Thank you for supporting us at HealthRangerStore.com.
Enjoy our new products.
Show my desk again.
Just a little selection of what we have.
Golden milk, you're definitely going to want to try that.
It's super delicious.
You might think drinking turmeric and ginger, how could it be delicious?
But it is.
It's quite delicious.
Check out the Coco Energize.
Check out the Ahi Flower Oil and so many other products that we have available now at healthrangerstore.com.
I'm Mike Adams, the founder of brighttown.com, and I thank you for your support.
We couldn't do it without you.
God bless you, and God bless America.
Take care.
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