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 Just finished watching/listening and having my mind blown! I have a question though and it requires a bit of your serious deep thinking on it, using your depiction of Elon in this pod … Imagine if Elon said something like this... everyone who purchases something from (any of his businesses) using bitcoin will be able to maintain a share of any future price appreciation of the bitcoin as they pay for a specified period of time.... It's almost as if in this completely flipped financial world of bitcoin (as you described it again in this pod)….businesses will go from loaning “value” and collecting interest to one of loaning value and sharing interest to the people we do business with? I mean as a business I feel I have to incentivize people to use the Bitcoin system in order to grow the value in the system ( and the crazy thing is that this feeling is so closely aligned with my current selfish feelings of needing to make more money that it is scary...and here's the crazy part...both systems probably exist for a very long time...as people move back and forth between them…