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Nov. 14, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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Decentralized social media invention works even in a NUCLEAR WAR...

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	Welcome to today's interview on Brighteon.com.
	I'm Mike Adams and this is a critical, even urgent action update and interview.
	We're going to be joined in a moment by Daniel Sachkov from Bastion.com.
	Bastion is the underlying engine that powers Brighteon.io, which is a decentralized, peer-to-peer, blockchain-driven, uncensorable social media platform.
	And it's also completely resistant to DNS attacks or any requirement of using domain names if you use the apps because it's truly peer-to-peer does not even need domain name resolution.
	Let me state it this way.
	This is the technology that's going to survive nuclear war.
	This is the technology that you will still be able to use to communicate and to hear from us and to hear from others that you follow or to put out messages even in the middle of a nuclear war or even in the middle of the internet kill switch being activated that takes down most websites, including brighttown.com, which does require domain name resolution.
	So, we're joined now by Daniel Sachkov, who is a key manager and contributor to the project.
	Daniel, welcome back.
	It's been too long.
	I love your technology.
	I love what you're doing.
	It's just great to have you on again.
	Hi, Mike.
	Thanks for having me.
	Hello, everybody.
	Well, Daniel, it's been, I think, a few months since we've had you on the show.
	A lot has happened since then.
	And I just want to encourage people to go to bastion, B-A-S-T-Y-O-N, bastion.com, or go to brighteon.io, which is just kind of a different skin for the same technology.
	And you can create an account right now.
	You can watch that right now.
	But, Daniel, tell us about the latest updates and achievements of the tech, please.
	Yeah, there are a number of things that are happening.
	I would focus on, let's say, three developments.
	The first development that's really important is in Bastion, we finally released monetization for bloggers.
	What does that mean?
	Well, that means that if you're an author, And you have a following.
	You can bring that following over and just by them watching your stuff or reading your stuff or commenting basically activity in your profile, you're going to earn pocket coin.
	Sixth week now, and authors are earning, right?
	And then we have some bloggers that, you know, really lost their YouTube accounts, and they've been demonetized completely.
	Now they're able to earn some money.
	Now, of course, this is not YouTube kind of money, especially not in the heyday, but you know what?
	The YouTube kind of money is really arbitrary.
	It runs out.
	At the worst possible time.
	Whereas in Bastion, if you're publishing, basically once a week, you're getting a payment of pocket coin.
	How is this funded?
	The question is, how is this funded?
	Well, it's funded from advertising.
	Now, for six weeks now, when an advertiser comes to Bastion and makes an advertising post, right, a video or a text or something or a picture, typically a video, they will, what's called boost it.
	And there's lots of unfortunate connotations with that beautiful English word now, but...
	But let's overcome that because we don't want to take our language, right?
	So boosting it really means what it's supposed to mean, like a rocket boost.
	It brings the post up and you attach PocketCoin to it.
	I've done that.
	I've posted videos and I've spent PocketCoin to boost those videos.
	I've done that before, yes.
	Yeah, and it still, to this day, even though more advertisers are joining in, it still has very good ROI, because not a lot of people know about it.
	So it's very simple.
	Now, before, it was only boosted to the top of the main feed, where all the authors reside.
	But for six weeks now, it's also appearing in the profiles of the authors in the individual channel.
	Oh, wow.
	Now, author has an option of turning that off.
	Let's say that, hey, I don't want advertising on my channel.
	You can turn it off.
	You're just not going to get the pocket coin.
	But I've heard from a number of authors, this was a lifesaver because they were completely demonetized on YouTube.
	And they literally have no money to eat.
	They have to go get a job.
	And for many of these people, you know, for someone like you, you're an expert in many areas and you have also businesses that coincide with your content, right?
	But many authors are not like that.
	They just talk about things and we really need them.
	We really need those people because they cover things that nobody else will cover.
	Let me interject something here.
	There has been, in the last two months, YouTube has been very aggressively shutting off accounts of people who are either, number one, critical of NATO and Ukraine, or critical of Israel.
	Now, this interview is not a geopolitical discussion.
	I'm just pointing this out as a fact that YouTube only allows one side of those debates, the anti-Russia side and the pro-Israel side.
	That's all they allow.
	And you and I both know that whether people agree or disagree with us on whatever issues, that...
	It's a human right to hear both sides, right?
	And so Bastion and Brighttown.io allow people to post and to view every side of every debate.
	And I'm shocked that these people on YouTube, the minute they get cut off from YouTube, they beg YouTube, let me back on, let me back on, please, pretty please.
	And I keep telling them.
	I'm posting to them on X. I say, you should go use Bastion and Brighttown.io.
	You should use Rumble.
	You should use Brighttown.com.
	Why are you begging to get back onto YouTube?
	It's weird.
	It's like they're leashed dogs who just want to go back on the leash.
	It's a complete lack of strategic vision because let's say they reinstate you.
	You're constantly hanging on by a thread.
	What we have to keep in mind is the power of these platforms is immense.
	Basically, in the internet age, the platforms are ancient.
	We have the bazaars and the marketplaces and so on.
	A platform is an instrument that brings people together.
	It doesn't produce anything.
	Then these people, they give value to the platform.
	In the internet age, because it overcomes geographic boundaries, platforms are the most powerful things.
	They're weapons of mass destruction.
	They're really more powerful than any weapon.
	I know people will be like, well, he's exaggerating.
	No, I'm not.
	Even nuclear weapons, they can destroy parts of the earth, but with a weapon of mass destruction like information, you can destroy everybody or almost everybody if you have control over it.
	So platforms are immensely powerful, but platforms essentially rely on this kind of ecosystem where all authors are essentially free employees of the platform.
	When you post video to YouTube, They've changed the psychology a little bit.
	Because there is a lot of crap content, but if you put a good video up, you did some work, who are you working for?
	You're working for YouTube.
	You're perpetuating their power and so on.
	Okay, you say, fine, this is all ideology.
	I just want to do my part.
	But you're basically investing in the platform.
	You're inviting people there.
	You're keeping people in that platform.
	But any minute, they can turn you off.
	It's not even economically, logically.
	Once they started doing that, that should have been the sign for people to leave.
	We have a number of authors, let's say, in the Russian-speaking side and in the English-speaking side who were proactive.
	The first time they got banned, they said, you know what, I'm going to build my following elsewhere.
	It took a little bit of time, but now they have an audience, and this audience cannot be taken away from them.
	So if like worst comes to worst, at least our audience will support them.
	Which you say for people who have hundreds of thousands of people and subscribers on YouTube, and they've never ever tried to create a secondary, you know, social media or have some access to them.
	That's just mind-boggling.
	Daniel, this is the key lesson, and I've got to get this point across to every content creator watching this.
	Even on X, Elon Musk could make a decision, theoretically, to block you.
	And I'm still shadow banned on X, by the way, even though my account was restored.
	But why should I be subject to the whims of one man?
	And what if that man changes to a different person one day?
	What if Elon sells X? Then what happens?
	Or what if he changes his mind?
	But Bastion, Brighteon.io and Bastion.com have the same underlying technology, which is your tech, Bastion tech, your organization's tech, Isn't it true, Daniel, speak to this, that you can't ban anybody, I can't ban anybody.
	I mean, we can't de-platform people.
	We can block them from our feed, but we can't just de-platform somebody from the entire platform.
	It is not...
	It's not possible.
	By construction, like there's a phrase, by construction.
	It's not because I have to convince you that it's not possible.
	You have to trust me.
	I'm a good guy.
	Or there's some agreement that we sign, which can be torn up, you know, when these agreements are torn all the time.
	No, it is because the way the system is constructed.
	It's constructed based on Bitcoin, essentially.
	Not essentially, but actually, Bitcoin codebase is a big part of the Bastion codebase.
	And the way it works is that when you post content, you have your private key.
	And there's a public key.
	It's posted under your public key, and you keep your private key.
	That's it.
	We have no access to that.
	So when you post it, nobody can do anything.
	And the code is open source, so everybody can see what's going on.
	Imagine Bitcoin developers tomorrow putting something in a code to target a specific address.
	That would be the end of Bitcoin.
	They could do that, but that would be the end of it.
	Same thing with Bastion.
	Nobody would ever attempt to do that because it's pointless.
	It's absolutely pointless to even do that.
	It's not free-for-all.
	There are types of content that are prohibited.
	Pornography, promotion of drugs, direct threat of violence are prohibited.
	At some point, there's going to be added some—basically, some work is done on copyrighted content.
	You don't want to post movies or something like that.
	That's not what the platform is for.
	It's not a torrent.
	Okay, but explain to us how that is enforced.
	This jury is enforced by the users, experienced users.
	If somebody used Bastion for a year, two years really, and then they become a pool of the jurors, and when an offending post comes out, let's say it's pornography, and people complain, the complaints themselves can do nothing.
	It's not a mob rule.
	That's the important part.
	I think one of the big innovations in Bastion is that we use the technology to actually create a balance between idealism and pragmatism.
	That's really, really important because when you're too idealistic, you have the energy, but you can't really create something lasting.
	When you're too pragmatic, you're like, I don't know who you are, but that's not us.
	So the balance is that we use the technology to actually create a system where decentralization can thrive.
	And this jury system, what happens there is, okay, people complain, let's say, this pornography.
	There's enough complaints registered.
	Nothing happens yet, but then a jury is called.
	But the key thing about the jury is that you are called to the jury.
	You cannot decide, so I don't like Mike Adams.
	Let's say I'm an experienced user who doesn't like Mike Adams.
	I want to go and make a fake claim, but you cannot volunteer that because the jury is called randomly from a pool of people.
	And then the conviction requires unanimous vote.
	I think that jury of peers is one of the great inventions of humanity, and we actually use technology and blockchain.
	So every time there's a block created, there's a lottery, kind of a lottery run based on the hash of the block, which nobody can predict.
	And then people with public keys, and because public key, maybe this is a little bit technical, but you can understand, the audience will get it.
	Public key in Bitcoin is just a number.
	It doesn't matter that it has letters.
	It's just a way of writing a big number.
	The hash, something called hash of the block, is a unique number to the block and it cannot be predicted in the blockchain when you have a lot of transactions because it's basically random.
	We take the hash of the block and we compare it to all the public keys of potential jurors and we pick, let's say, 50 potential jurors that are closest numbers to that hash.
	So it's just a number comparison, but it is really, I think, solves—this is a massive sociological invention, I believe—ability to use randomness in blockchain to create a jury of peers.
	I think that's going to be useful in so many facets of society when you want to be honest and transparent.
	Let me interrupt you.
	You're such a capable individual, so high IQ on the technical aspects, but I'm going to ask you to simplify it.
	You could have just said it's random.
	Okay, we get it.
	But you're giving us the actual mechanism of how the randomness works, which is great for coders and programmers watching.
	But for our audience, it's enough to say, okay, I don't know.
	I don't know.
	I trust no single man or woman on this earth to have control over people's speech.
	I don't trust anybody.
	I wouldn't even trust myself to be that person.
	Nobody should be that person.
	But let me ask you this, though.
	Because once you become that person, then the bullseye is on you.
	Of course!
	Like Pavel Durov of Telegram, I was saying for years, he's a genius, no doubt.
	He's a brilliant person, but I was saying that the fact that he built a centralized platform where all the keys are in his possession is a complete folly, because there's no way you can withstand the pressure.
	Well, and he already folded.
	He already folded.
	With Bastion, it makes no sense to pressure me or anybody.
	It's like, you know, there's a proverb, I think.
	I forgot whether it's American or Russian proverb.
	I lived in the States most of my life.
	But when you try to get wool from a pig, it's too much squealing and not enough wool.
	From a sheep?
	No, no, from a pig.
	That's the whole point of the joke, that when you try to get a wool from a pig, you just get squealing and no wool.
	It's the same thing like trying to, you know, so they can take Pavel Durov and say, give us the keys.
	If they take me and say, give us the keys.
	Okay.
	I don't have the keys.
	It doesn't matter what you do.
	I just don't have it.
	it, it's pretty transparent.
	Okay, that makes more sense.
	I apologize.
	I was not familiar with that idiom, but that does sound funny now that you've explained it.
	But let me ask you about the structure of the low bandwidth nature of Bastion or Brightion.io, because, see, I believe we're facing a time, we're on the verge of nuclear war right now, in the Middle East especially, you know, between Israel and Iran and maybe Pakistan and the U.S. Navy, who knows?
	We're on the verge of some major events.
	We've had storms that have caused blackouts and grid down situations.
	The reliability of the internet is not what it used to be.
	We have the possibility that undersea fiber optic cables could be severed on purpose during acts of war.
	China might be involved.
	The US and Russia might do it to each other.
	The UK, who knows?
	The point is, Bastion is designed, and I want you to speak to this, designed to operate in a low bandwidth availability environment and still remain its peer-to-peer redundancy.
	Is that correct?
	Well, when you say low bandwidth, if you mean like a really slow internet, yes, it can work in that mode.
	But it does need some internet.
	Of course.
	If the internet is completely severed, then the bastion will not work, to be clear.
	Well, yeah, yeah.
	People get that.
	The point is, though, that I believe that we're entering a phase of...
	Basically, controlled demolition of many of the systems, and one of the first casualties will be the internet.
	Banning of the bloggers is really a warm-up.
	I think it's going to be more like redoing the internet in ways that reverse the whole paradigm.
	Right now, you can ban people, but I think what they want to do is they want to reverse it and say, you have to be allowed.
	We're not going to ban you.
	You have to actually have a passport Some sort of a passport, vaccine passport or whatever.
	We're not on YouTube so we can speak our mind.
	You need to be permitted to be on the internet.
	And I think that's what they're going to try to do.
	With Bastion, because it's built to be anonymous, pseudonymous.
	It has your public-private key.
	You can create multiple accounts.
	And also the app that you mentioned, right?
	The domain, the website, you can use it, but you really need to download the app, and we should probably put the link to Brighteon.io slash applications.
	You'll be able to download for Linux, for Windows, for anything.
	Let me ask my editor to put that on the screen, brighteon.io slash applications.
	You can download an app for any device, basically, and what's going to happen there is internet will be disrupted.
	Now, it may appear to you that it's disrupted because of a hacker attack or a war, or God forbid, a nuclear war, but I really believe that's the plan all along, to disrupt internet in major ways.
	I don't think they're going to kill it.
	I really don't.
	And that's the difference between some people.
	They think they're just going to turn everything off.
	No, no, no.
	Turning off internet completely is very unpredictable because lots of authorities, they use it themselves.
	And they don't want an unpredictable situation.
	It's a controlled demolition.
	So what's going to be disrupted is a lot of legacy internet.
	But an app like Brighteon.io will work in most circumstances.
	And this has been tested.
	There were situations like in Kazakhstan a few years ago, there was a revolution where they turned off.
	People thought that the internet is off completely.
	It's turned off.
	But no, they just turned off DNS completely.
	And Bright and Bastion application work.
	We have videos from people in Kazakhstan.
	They record on the screen.
	They showed, look, I go to all the websites.
	Nothing works.
	I go to the app and it works.
	It's slow, but it works.
	They were able to get actual information about what's going on in their own hometown that nobody else could.
	Have there been any other war zone situations where people have been able to use Bastion or Brighton.io that you're aware of?
	Well, I know not Warzone, but I know people in China use it.
	I mean, people in China, most of them are too afraid, but there are some foreigners in China who are not afraid of using Bastion application, and it works without a VPN in China.
	Technology that Chinese employ for blocking off the internet, that's a shock.
	There's no app that will work outside of the Great Wall without a VPN, but Bastion application works because it uses many different algorithms.
	It's like a Swiss knife of decentralization.
	I mentioned three things I'm going to talk about.
	The second thing is there were a number of these Swiss knife blades added to censorship resistance in the app.
	So, for example, we used to have ability to work directly with the nodes.
	So, just like Bitcoin, you run a bastion, you're reading, you're watching the videos, but you're connecting to computers around the world.
	But also, there is added a Tor protocol, so the app itself will sense No kidding.
	Wow.
	And there's a whole new other deep packet inspection evasion mechanism being built.
	So it's an arms race.
	We realize that, you know, we're up against like serious kind of events and adversaries.
	But the app is developing all the time.
	And so like last few months, there were not so many flashy features like, oh, you know, something very visible.
	But lots of work is going on specifically on censorship resistance.
	And the third thing I will mention from the development side is the Barteron.
	The marketplace, the decentralized marketplace, is released.
	Right now, it's the website barteron.club.
	But soon it will be embedded into the actual Bastion application, Brighteon application.
	Now what's going to happen, come November or December, there's going to be an app store within Bastion and Brighteon, it's the same thing, opened up.
	So what that means is that any developer can come in and very quickly, for like a few days, build a mini application.
	So it's becoming not just the Bastion and Brighteon social network, But it's a whole new internet full of applications.
	You can build a new calendar.
	You can build a decentralized email.
	There's lots of things that I would like to build, but right now it's very difficult.
	If you're a developer, let's say, right, Mike, and you want to build decentralized, truly decentralized email, you need to have a team of people.
	You need to have people on the back end, on the front end.
	Then you need to collect payments somehow if it's a paid service.
	With the Bastion and Brighteon mini applications that are coming very soon, and Barteron is only the first one, the developer will be able to just, with a couple of lines of code, collect payments, a couple of lines of code, register keys on the blockchain, and do all these things.
	So it really reduces the amount of effort that needs to be done to create an application.
	Wow.
	And so this is going to be like Google Play or App Store, and we're going to have a big contest toward the end of the year where we're going to have pocket coin prizes for developers to develop these applications.
	And so my hope is that, you know, when we speak, let's say, in end of quarter one, 2025, there's going to be dozens and dozens of apps.
	So gradually, you will need less and less of the censored legacy Internet.
	Okay, this is really great news.
	I'm glad you're sharing that with us.
	And you mentioned pocket coin.
	I want to say, pcoin is the currency that people use to buy boosts, which is advertising, on your platform.
	And pcoin, as you've explained it, it's just like a private-labeled bitcoin, in essence, for the platform.
	I mean, it uses the same kind of blockchain decentralized structure as bitcoin, correct?
	That's right.
	The difference with Bitcoin is, and we know Bitcoin is kind of the digital gold, that Bitcoin derives its power and its value from the network.
	There's something called the Metcalf law that the value of the network grows exponentially exponentially with the number of users.
	If the number of users doubles, let's say quadratically, the number of users doubles, the value of the network becomes four times that.
	Now, the Bitcoin derives its value from so many users using Bitcoin, everybody believing it and using it, right?
	Because technically, you can launch a clone of Bitcoin any day.
	Bastion is different.
	Bastion is not a competitor.
	Technically, it's like Bitcoin, but it's not a competitor.
	It's completely different.
	It's the first cryptocurrency that's actually backed by something real.
	Which is the power of visibility on the platform.
	Advertising, exactly.
	You know, let's say that we live in a world where you can never sell pocket coin.
	You can, but let's say you could not.
	You could always convert it into advertising.
	And advertising is one of the most valuable things on the internet.
	If you think of all these giants, they're all built on advertising revenue.
	Now, we're not looking to build a system that's specifically for advertising, but certainly, that's part of the commerce that allows people to have themselves heard, add some pocket coin.
	Now, remember in the beginning, I said that the authors can earn now.
	Well, the trick The amazing thing about Bastion is that authors get 100% of the advertising revenue because Bastion is not a corporation.
	It's not Google.
	It's not Facebook.
	It doesn't need earnings.
	It doesn't need to have a board or impress investors or earn all this kind of money.
	Basically, if people come in and advertise for 5,000 pocket coin, well, that pocket coin is all going to go to authors and to note holders.
	It's a whole economy.
	I even have a slide.
	It's like water in nature.
	Pocket coin goes to the author From advertiser, then the author can possibly sell it to go eat or something like that or create a cover for the next video.
	Then the advertiser buys it.
	So it's like a whole economy.
	In the cryptocurrency space, there's nothing like that because most cryptos are there basically for scarcity and they try to be clones of, most of them, clones of Bitcoin and they try to build a network by collecting this ICO or all this money.
	And pumping the money into the coin.
	Bastion is different.
	There's no ICO. There's no, like, advertising budget.
	It's real people using real, you know, it's like people's coin.
	You can say Pcoin is a pocket coin, but it's also people's coin.
	Now, I think from the first time I interviewed you about this, I think pocket coin was something like 24 cents.
	And I'm looking at it right now today, and it's 64 cents.
	So it's more than doubled since then, and I think I saw it at $0.72 or something.
	But the point is...
	You're not here to talk about speculation on the coin, and I'm not either.
	We're talking about the utility of it.
	But I have a request, and perhaps I'm not aware of this, but I've wanted to know if there's an easier marketplace to trade Pcoin with other coins.
	I'm not even talking about buying it with dollars or credit cards.
	I'm saying swap Bitcoin for Pcoin or the other way around, swap Pcoin for Bitcoin.
	Is that kind of marketplace...
	Something that exists that I don't know about or could it exist and could it be part of the interface?
	Well, there are a couple of exchanges that have pocket coin on them and they're traded, I think, against Bitcoin or USDT. I'll be honest, we're a different project.
	We don't focus on coin first.
	For us, it's the platform, and the coin is there to let everybody earn.
	So, there are exchanges, cryptocurrency exchanges, where you can buy and sell pocket coin.
	But also, there is a category, if you log in, and on the left, there are different categories, like memes and so on.
	There's a category called pocket coin peer-to-peer.
	And that's what is really kind of dear to me.
	I really believe that the economy must be peer-to-peer, hence the barter on.
	On barter on, you can barter stuff, but you could also use crypto wherever it's legal.
	You can use not just pocket coin, any kind of crypto.
	To my mind, crypto is meant to be peer-to-peer.
	The day that crypto becomes, and I think that day has come, unfortunately, for many of the cryptocurrencies that It's focused on exchanges and on trading.
	It's basically lost its meaning.
	Yes.
	Even though it can be worth a lot of money.
	And KYC. All the KYC requirements of all these changes.
	It's a nightmare.
	Exactly.
	Because the KYC then allows them to reconstruct the whole picture and then it becomes like just another visa, you know?
	People talk about CVDCs, right?
	Or CVDCs.
	They're not going to warn you about CVDCs.
	You know, your visa card.
	You're walking around with a plastic card with a microchip.
	That has your location, that has your name, your passport, everything.
	So they're trying to turn crypto into that.
	So exchanges are fine for people who want to buy a decent amount or whatever.
	But I'm glad when people do it peer-to-peer.
	And I always try to do everything peer-to-peer because that's a great precedent.
	And there is a category.
	And if you go in there, you will always find people who want to get rid of pocket coin or buy pocket coin.
	And you can exchange it on Barteron.
	Now you can exchange it for goods.
	So, that's the real value.
	I believe that's the real promise of crypto.
	And I think that promise has been subverted to a large degree.
	But we're trying to restore it.
	The real promise of crypto is peer to peer.
	It's not about to the moon.
	It's not about 10x or 20x.
	It's let's have a coin that is usable in daily life.
	And that's all of the work.
	And then when the pocket coin, and it's already usable, I know, I see it, that people are using it amongst themselves.
	Well, what happens then is that the authors that create content are that much more incentivized to create it because now there's more value to the coin.
	And the advertisers spend money.
	They make this money.
	Like, you know, some authors, they say, I don't want to sell.
	I will just, you know, it's my nest egg or whatever.
	So the beauty of it is we want to step out of the banker system, right?
	Yes.
	That's what we want to do.
	Well, we want to...
	I know you're aware of this because somebody from your team has been working with us on this, and I don't even know the status, I admit, but we want to accept Bitcoin as payment in our store And then we would spend that Pcoin as advertising on the platform for our content.
	Do you happen to know what's the status of that project or what difficulties?
	I don't because, you know, Bastion is not like a company and people don't report to me.
	I can find out.
	There are chats for developers and GitHub.
	Actually, there are people joining.
	If you're listening to this, you're a developer now.
	Go to GitHub, find PocketNet team, and just join.
	You just join and you start writing code.
	You start making comments.
	So I will chase that down and find out.
	Last I heard there was some problem with Shopify, but let me find that out.
	I do know that Shopify...
	It has really locked down any kind of APIs and things like that, and it might be that we have to go completely outside Shopify in order to do that.
	I'm not sure either, but that's an interest that I have, and I know that you have, and maybe the two of us can tell our teams to see if this is possible to make it work.
	Yeah, I mean, the developers of Bastion respect me.
	I'm not their boss, but they respect me.
	Certainly, I will.
	And, you know, that's the promise, I think, of Bastion, is that we realize that we talk about Bastion of free speech, and it is.
	But Bastion of free speech needs to be built on a very solid foundation, and that foundation is that the authors...
	And node holders, the computer holders, need to earn something.
	Yes.
	Because otherwise it will not work in the long run.
	So it's crucial and important that pocket coin is actually real people's coin when people use it.
	So any project like that, they just jump on it.
	Well, thanks for reminding me because I post constantly on Bastion or Brighttown.io.
	Everything that I post on X, by the way, I'm posting simultaneously on Brighttown.io.
	I know, I'm subscribed.
	I'm subscribed.
	Okay.
	So you know I'm posting all late hours of the night, all day, except when I'm here.
	But there are some things that I don't post on X that I do post on Brighttown, things that I think I might get banned for in particular.
	That's wise.
	You want to keep that account, yeah.
	Yeah, so I'm self-censoring on X. It's quite edgy, and some of these things definitely will get you off of X. And it's not going to be Elon Musk himself, believe me.
	He won't even know.
	Right.
	But one of the things...
	So here's...
	Here's a feature request.
	I apologize for just doing this publicly, but one of the things that I would love to see possible is, like, I can take a small video, less than 40 megabytes, let's say.
	I consider that a small video, and I can just drag it onto the interface on X or Telegram.
	I can just drag a video to Telegram, or I can drag it onto our Bright Town Social.
	Is there, and I know that Bastion, it's designed to be low bandwidth, it's not designed to be a video platform, so it's kind of overburdening the system in a sense, but is there a way to make small video sharing just easier?
	I will find out.
	I mean, it's what you describe as a front-end feature that seems to me quite doable.
	The only thing to remember is that there are a number of developers, but they don't collect the salary, so they're overburdened right now.
	And there are two things that are coming that I think are very important, and I should tell you about that.
	One of it is scheduled posts.
	I think you will like that, too.
	You'll be able to schedule your posts in advance.
	Yeah.
	And just set the time.
	That's coming using basically delayed transaction on the blockchain.
	The other thing that's coming, I think, is massively important.
	One of the most important features that didn't come out yet is collections.
	Basically, collection is where you go in and you take, let's say, your posts from some category, not just videos.
	It could be videos.
	It could be articles.
	And you collect it into a collection that's thematic.
	That's important because a lot of the social media now in Bastion too, which that's my regret, is that it's too short memory, right?
	Basically, it slips down and down into the feed and then you have to look for it.
	What I want is that the content that you posted, I mean, there are some things I know of because one of the ways I got introduced to you was your audiobook.
	It was about the crisis and electricity.
	I vividly remember it.
	I don't remember the name, but there was a lot about electricity and crisis and so on.
	That audiobook is two years old, but it doesn't matter.
	It should be on your front page.
	And so collection will allow you to take all the posts, let's say, about prepping And put it in one collection.
	That, I think, is huge because we don't want to have that mentality that the world is trying to impress upon us that everything that matters happened in the last hour.
	That's why people don't forget, hey, they promised you three years ago no war.
	They promised you this, they promised you that.
	Three years ago, I hardly remember what happened last week.
	So, we want to have this kind of, that's going to be a huge addition because these collections will be in your profile and they can be posted from two years ago, three years ago.
	Basically, something that you feel is really important that cannot afford to be stored somewhere in the back.
	So, those things are coming.
	I will ask about this and let's see if they can produce it.
	Okay, well, it's fantastic.
	And the team of developers that work on Bastion slash Brighteon.io, they're real professionals.
	I've been so impressed with everything they've built.
	And the fact that it just works so smoothly...
	I don't see a lot of bugs.
	Maybe you see more on the back end or in staging before they go public or live.
	I don't see bugs.
	I see a smooth interface that works.
	It's virtually seamless.
	And I've managed a lot of developer projects before, obviously on our platforms, and it's a nightmare to try to get the bugs worked out.
	How does your team do this?
	You say they're not salaried.
	And I understand.
	I mean, you're telling the truth.
	I'm not challenging you.
	They're not salaried.
	How are they so good and yet mostly volunteer?
	It's rare.
	There are some developers.
	There are some minor developers that I pay out of my pocket because there's some things that I don't want to bore or bother the core, bastion core devs.
	But there are a few things that are at work there.
	The one thing is the culture of Bastion development.
	It's like a really guerrilla culture in a very good way because a lot of these people worked in corporate projects and so on, but they had to learn that in a project like Bastion, you don't have a QA team, you don't have people backing you up, and there were a lot of problems early on.
	But they all test their work very thoroughly, or most of them do.
	Very rarely that there's a hiccup there.
	But also, I should say that it's a classic example of solidarity.
	There is a group of Bastion volunteers, and if you want to join, you can write to support at bastion.com, where there's, I think, up to 40 people now that pre-test every release.
	They're actually users.
	So what they do is...
	A month before the release or two weeks before the release, they will install the app that is not released yet, and they're heavy-duty users, so they find so many problems.
	Because you cannot write as system complex as this, you cannot be without bugs.
	But the point is that we have a whole group of volunteers, of users that help us find the bugs, and then the developer, that's why the releases are generally clean.
	Yeah.
	Well, and I want to remind people that you can access brighteon.io or bastion.com.
	You can access it through any browser, first of all.
	You don't need an account, like I'm showing you the screen right here, and here's a post about Butter.
	You're going to find a wide variety of content here.
	But you can also download the applications.
	Again, brighteon.io slash applications.
	You can get the Android app.
	There is a Mac OS app.
	There's a Windows app, which is what I use.
	iPhone is not currently supported by Apple, correct?
	No, there is an iPhone app.
	It was released some months ago after many years of...
	Basically, they asked us to remove anything related to PocketCoin and many other things.
	So there are some things removed, but being an iPhone user, if you're not comfortable...
	I mean, if you're a savvy user on iPhone, I suggest you're using it in Safari.
	You can just create an icon on your home screen.
	It's going to be just like a native app, maybe no notifications, but that's not even a bad thing.
	But if you're not comfortable with the browser and less tech savvy, just go to the App Store.
	Bastion is there.
	You will get content.
	You will get all the authors.
	There is no censorship.
	I mean, until Apple deletes the app.
	But for now, yeah.
	Okay.
	And let me mention to all the users, if you want to follow me, My username is healthranger.
	It's just at healthranger or healthranger.
	And I want to say, Daniel, that bastion slash brighttown.io, I've announced this many times, this is my default emergency comms channel.
	For if there is a takedown of DNS selectively, if they take down Natural News or they take down Brighttown.com, I mean, they're auctioning off InfoWars right now through Lawfare.
	They're taking down Alex Jones at InfoWars.
	They're auctioning his equipment, for God's sake.
	They're trying to auction off his social media names, his accounts.
	I'm like, are you kidding?
	I knew they would do that.
	Yeah, we discussed that.
	I mean, it was...
	They're going to go all the way.
	He needs to change his name to like Ye Did or Prince and have like an artistic name and have like an app.
	Like you have right now.io.
	He needs to have an app in his name with Bastion.
	But going beyond that, I will say that...
	For most people that probably listen to you, it's not necessary, but I will still say that on off chance that it's shared to somebody.
	I don't know how you feel, but I don't have a whole lot of time to consume content, but I do keep up with some news, technology, finance.
	And YouTube, even in those areas, is becoming insufferable because technology and finance is more and more encroaching in those areas where they censor.
	So it's less and less interesting.
	So you find out less and less about the world.
	So if you're still using YouTube predominantly, I think that I don't want to call you names, but you're numbing your brain because that's what it does.
	Absolutely.
	I used to go into YouTube.
	I have 20 minutes.
	I want to watch a finance video because my feed is full of them.
	Then I want to watch something about politics.
	I would scroll for 10 seconds.
	I would find something interesting.
	Now, if I go periodically to YouTube, I do periodically go.
	I will scroll up and down for like five minutes.
	I will find nothing that I even want to click on despite all these clickbait titles and so on.
	It's just they killed the platform.
	So I think many people are using it just by inertia.
	You need to get out of inertia.
	We're in a different world.
	I'm right there with you, and I agree with your assessment of what YouTube has done.
	And I want your comments on Rumble.
	And let me say about Rumble, first of all, I greatly honor Chris Pavlovsky and what he has achieved with Rumble.
	And Rumble has many of the top feeds of personalities and people who were banned on YouTube.
	But...
	It's hard for me to use Rumble because when I go to Rumble, all I get are things I'm not interested in, video games, martial arts.
	I mean, I'm a martial artist, but I don't go online to watch martial arts.
	I practice it.
	But Rumble, it seems to be geared to men in their 20s and 30s.
	That's not what I want to hear.
	I want, you know, I want to hear geopolitical analysis.
	I want to hear experts on gold and silver.
	Most of the guys I want to hear from are 50 years old or older, and that's not Rumble.
	You know, it's just the way it is.
	Well, that's probably what their investors want, and it's good for them.
	I mean, I definitely don't want to say anything negative about Rumble.
	No, no.
	Rumble's great.
	I support them.
	Yeah, and I know you sound very positive.
	Maybe I'm not as positive as you are, and I'll explain why.
	So, initially, I was very skeptical.
	I was highly skeptical because I knew how much money they were offering, and I know when you're offering tens of millions of dollars, People who give that money usually will make you toe the line.
	But so far, Rumble has been pretty outstanding in that.
	And I don't go to Rumble per se, but there are some authors where I will, let's say, be in Telegram and they'll post a link to Rumble.
	I will go to the Rumble channel and I will see what the recommended videos are.
	Usually the video I clicked on is very good, but the recommended ones are not, so I don't stay.
	Right.
	That's been my experience.
	They withstood the pressure.
	The question becomes, to me, and that's why Bastion is built the way it is, because I'm not saying we could have done Rumble, but we could have done something like that.
	We could have built another Facebook, freedom-oriented Facebook, would have gone to people that are freedom-oriented for money, maybe not tens of millions, but millions, and built the centralized platform that way.
	We would say, look, we're the good guys.
	We're not going to censor.
	We would be completely sincere about that.
	The problem is that you cannot promise that as a corporation.
	Remember, the corporation that's behind you supersedes you as a founder, as a top engineer, as anybody.
	So anybody at Rumble, they cannot promise you anything.
	They cannot.
	They cannot promise you because they don't control what the corporation will do.
	What could happen, not saying it will, I don't know who's behind.
	Honestly, I didn't investigate, but at a certain point in time, and it's going to be the worst possible point in time, They will deprive you of some information.
	What are you going to do?
	Because remember, the authors are putting in years of work.
	They're like free journalists.
	You as a user of a platform, you're an employee of YouTube or Rumble.
	Because they have the algorithm, they have the AI that gathers your data and learns from it.
	They can be pressured, just like Elon Musk was pressured by Brazil.
	Brazil shut down X and just said, look, if you want X to work in Brazil, you're going to have to censor these accounts.
	And X complied.
	And look what they did to Pavel of Telegram.
	Same thing.
	Arrest you.
	Threatened to throw you in prison for life unless you give them backdoors access to content.
	So your point is well taken.
	You're exactly right.
	And I'm sorry to cut you off, but we are out of time.
	Final thoughts today, Daniel.
	What do you want to leave our audience with?
	Well, going on the promise theme, right?
	We have to be very careful about what you promise because you have to really fulfill it.
	The Bastion promise is this, that As we discussed, neither I nor developers can ban anybody.
	The code is open sourced.
	Even if they subverted all of us, which, you know, everybody's human.
	I don't intend to be subverted, but you know what?
	There are methods.
	And, you know, like, there are stories about, you know, horrific tortures that people, you know, withstand, and who knows, right?
	The point is that Bastion Promise is not about personalities.
	You know, I spent a lot of time discussing it, and I love this.
	It's something that I put, you know, my life in.
	I prepared, I think, all my life for that project.
	And for the last eight years, I was kind of fulfilling that.
	But ultimately, the promise is that the code is open-based.
	It can be copied.
	It has no copyright.
	There's no corporation.
	It's not about the good guys or bad guys.
	It's about the fact that technically, the thing is built to last.
	What you need to realize is that we're in a different world.
	When people say, we need to get rid of the fiat money, the dollar and euro and whatever, We need to get rid of this.
	We need to get rid of the old medicine, which we do.
	And I agree with you.
	A lot of things you say, everything, I think.
	So we need to get rid of this and that.
	But you don't get rid of the old internet.
	Is that logical?
	You're entering a completely new environment.
	Yeah.
	We're almost out of time, Daniel.
	Sorry.
	But the point is that, to finish that, you need to think about the future in terms of technology.
	And I believe Bastion is a part of the answer there.
	I completely agree with you.
	That's why I'm such a strong advocate of your platform and your tech.
	And that's why we have put a face on it, put a Brighteon.io face on Bastion. And I love the fact we don't have to host any servers. Nobody does. There are not central servers. So it can't be seized or taken down.
	There are nodes, hundreds or thousands of nodes all over the world.
	So this is absolutely bulletproof against tyranny.
	So, Daniel, I just want to thank you so much for your contributions here and all the team members and all the volunteers, the coders, the developers, the content people.
	They are building what I believe is going to be the system for freedom for the future of humanity.
	I think that Bastion one day can actually outpace Twitter or X. I think that's where it's headed.
	I mean, a billion users, is it possible?
	It's possible, okay?
	Will it take time?
	Yes, but it's got a structure that is pro-freedom and pro-human, so thank you for building it, and I look forward to working with you more.
	Thank you so much, Mike.
	All right.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, Daniel.
	Bye.
	All right.
	Take care.
	Wow.
	Just an amazing technology.
	Go to brighton.io and you can view it there.
	You can use it through your browser.
	You can create an account.
	You don't even need to use a phone number.
	It can be anonymous and you can start posting content or reading content and you can start earning P coin actually by posting content.
	And also bastion.com is the founding site where the same interface exists.
	And you can also go to slash applications to download the apps that Daniel spoke about.
	Thank you for watching today.
	I'm Mike Adams of bastion.com, here to help support human freedom, health freedom, and a free world for the future of humanity.
	Thank you for watching today.
	God bless you all.
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