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1. 0:00Aloha. My name is Joby Weekes and I've
2. 0:02been stuck here on house arrest for six
3. 0:05years. And you're probably wondering
4. 0:08why.
5. 0:09Me too.
6. 0:13>> Joe Badia [music] Weeks is accused of
7. 0:16fraud in a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme
8. 0:19bilking 34 [music]
9. 0:21of a billion dollars from victims. Say
10. 0:23investigators the man had been running a
11. 0:25business called Bit Club Network for the
12. 0:28past 5 years. be facing [music] 25 years
13. 0:31in prison for fraud and conspiracy
14. 0:33charges.
15. 0:34>> I became an entrepreneur at a very young
16. 0:37age. I started my own [music] business
17. 0:40mowing lawns and shoveling snow and
18. 0:42helped a friend with the paper route. I
19. 0:45go door knockocking, selling magazine
20. 0:47subscriptions.
21. 0:50Any little way I could figure out how to
22. 0:51make money when I'm like 10.
23. 0:53>> Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon,
24. 0:55ma'am. Good. Oh, hey, buddy. Are your
25. 0:58parents home? So, I was kind of brought
26. 0:59up as a hustler, which I kind of had to
27. 1:01be because being a Christian school
28. 1:03teacher, my dad never made more than
29. 1:05$20,000 a year, which isn't a lot for a
30. 1:09family of four. And that's how I got
31. 1:11myself free. At 19, I'm a millionaire. I
32. 1:14got a mansion on the lake, backyards,
33. 1:16the [music] beach, wakeboarding every
34. 1:17day, [laughter]
35. 1:19and um I took off
36. 1:22>> here in Las Vegas. Hunter Soft, here we
37. 1:25come.
38. 1:28road trip and back again. Woohoo!
39. 1:31>> We're going to race each other around
40. 1:32the track.
41. 1:37>> And I wanted to see the world. I went to
42. 1:39100 countries, [music] 200 to 250 cities
43. 1:41a year, every year for 15 years. Stayed
44. 1:43anywhere for more than a week or two in
45. 1:4615 years.
46. 1:48And so that's what I did. And I started
47. 1:50finding all these cool disruptive
48. 1:51technologies that I thought, "Wow,
49. 1:53that's a good invention. This is great.
50. 1:55I I want to finance that." [music] I
51. 1:57brought a lot of technology back to the
52. 1:59United States and launched companies.
53. 2:01And
54. 2:02>> you don't need to own music to have
55. 2:04music. 1.5 million songs. If you
56. 2:08remember back in the day, there was
57. 2:09Napster. But Napster got shut down
58. 2:12because it was centralized. So somebody
59. 2:14invented this thing called the Bit
60. 2:15Torrent network where you could download
61. 2:175 minutes of movie on this computer, 5
62. 2:19minutes on that computer, 5 minutes on
63. 2:20this computer. Yet I could get the
64. 2:22entire movie even though it wasn't in
65. 2:24one location. And so somebody said,
66. 2:26"Hey, you've seen the Bit Torrent
67. 2:28network on how you can download music
68. 2:30and movies. Bitcoin is the currency that
69. 2:32runs on the Bit Torrent network." I
70. 2:34instantly got it.
71. 2:35>> Now, the new currency is growing in
72. 2:37popularity. It's even [music] been
73. 2:38called the future.
74. 2:39>> Bitcoin, this mysterious digital
75. 2:42currency.
76. 2:43>> We're asking whether or not this
77. 2:44currency [music] really has any
78. 2:45longevity, let alone legitimacy.
79. 2:48>> I'm not an expert cryptocurrency, but I
80. 2:50have my doubts [music] about it about
81. 2:52it. When Bitcoin was coming out, nobody
82. 2:54really knew what a Bitcoin was, but we
83. 2:55already had a mint minting gold and
84. 2:57silver coins. And so we thought, well,
85. 2:59let's make a Bitcoin coin. So, we
86. 3:02designed the logo and we put on the
87. 3:03backside this private key so you could
88. 3:06actually load a physical coin with
89. 3:08crypto. And somebody said to me, well,
90. 3:11Bitcoin is a golden egg or you can buy
91. 3:13the goose that lays golden eggs. And at
92. 3:15the time somebody had told me about this
93. 3:17club called
94. 3:18>> Bit Club Network is one of the fastest
95. 3:20growing business models worldwide.
96. 3:22>> They're selling mining hardware computer
97. 3:24equipment. And I was like interesting.
98. 3:26That's exactly what I want to be doing.
99. 3:29So I joined Bit Club as a member.
100. 3:31>> You can get a literally a piece of every
101. 3:33little transaction that takes place
102. 3:35anywhere in the world. It's really
103. 3:36exciting to think about.
104. 3:37>> And I thought if this works, this could
105. 3:40be something huge. If a laptop computer
106. 3:43would make a dollar a day in Bitcoin,
107. 3:45then what would happen if we filled an
108. 3:47entire data center with a million laptop
109. 3:49computers? We'd make a million dollars a
110. 3:51day, right? So that's what we decided to
111. 3:54do. We set up a data center in Iceland.
112. 3:57We got one in Georgia and one in Norway.
113. 3:59We got some power out of Canada. We're
114. 4:01building this one in Montana, which is
115. 4:02going to be the largest Bitcoin mine in
116. 4:04the world. It's 300 megawatt. It's
117. 4:05monstrous.
118. 4:07>> When you have machines that print money,
119. 4:09that gives you the freedom to travel.
120. 4:11Last year we did 152 countries and what
121. 4:14do we do? We talk about Bitcoin all the
122. 4:17time everywhere we go.
123. 4:21That's what I basically did. I flew
124. 4:22around doing these huge seminars and
125. 4:24conferences and crypto events and um
126. 4:29unfortunately became a target for
127. 4:30hackers and thieves.
128. 4:35What's really ironic, too, is Joby was
129. 4:38actually getting hacked by a nefarious
130. 4:40character and Joby was the one who
131. 4:43actually brought it to the FBI.
132. 4:45>> I tracked the Bitcoin to a wallet with
133. 4:46over a billion dollars in it. And I give
134. 4:48it to him on a silver platter, this
135. 4:50dossi. I'm like, "Here's the hacker."
136. 4:51And they're like, "Well, how do we say
137. 4:53this? There's an investigation going on
138. 4:55on you."
139. 4:56>> And instead of going after the bad
140. 4:58actor, they then flipped it and went
141. 4:59after Joby instead. So I fly to
142. 5:02Washington DC to the Ritz Carlton to sit
143. 5:04down with these agents. They just asked
144. 5:06about an hour's worth of questions about
145. 5:08Bit Club. I show them, yeah, these are
146. 5:10what the data centers look like. It's a
147. 5:12private membership association. They
148. 5:13don't take dollars. It's just Bitcoin
149. 5:15in, Bitcoin out. They're selling mining
150. 5:17hardware, computer equipment. And so I
151. 5:20think the investigation is over. 6
152. 5:23months goes by and I get a phone call
153. 5:25and they're like, "The government raided
154. 5:26the data center and they took
155. 5:27everything." And I'm like, "What?" So, I
156. 5:29call up the agents and I'm like, "Did
157. 5:31you guys just raid the data center? You
158. 5:33guys have my phone number." The agents
159. 5:34are like, "Yeah, we have some more
160. 5:35questions." I'm like, "Great. Do you
161. 5:36guys want to meet me in West Palm Beach
162. 5:38for this [music] Tony Robbins
163. 5:39conference?" I got extra tickets. It was
164. 5:40called Date with Destiny. You see, I
165. 5:43feel like I'm like cooperating with
166. 5:44them. I reached out when I found out
167. 5:46there was an investigation. I was like,
168. 5:48"Come on down West Palm. We'll do Tony
169. 5:49Robbins together at lunchtime. We can
170. 5:52chat about your investigation into Bit
171. 5:54Club or whatever you guys want."
172. 5:56And so at the lunch break, I see him
173. 5:59sitting there. I'm like, "Okay, I got
174. 6:00some smoothies. I got tickets. Here we
175. 6:02go." I sit down. I'm like, "Hey, how's
176. 6:04it going?" And all of a sudden, boom,
177. 6:06I'm surrounded by agents on all sides of
178. 6:09me.
179. 6:13And then they take me to this unmarked
180. 6:15building and they're just interrogating
181. 6:17me for 6 hours trying to get me to give
182. 6:19them all my Bitcoin. So I no, I can't
183. 6:21give you all my crypto. And so that got
184. 6:24them a little bit irritated.
185. 6:26>> On December 5th, 2019, Mr. Weekes was
186. 6:30indicted for selling unregistered
187. 6:32securities and wire fraud.
188. 6:35>> They didn't actually say I sold
189. 6:36unregistered securities. They said I was
190. 6:40thinking about it cuz computer equipment
191. 6:42isn't a security. It's a physical
192. 6:44product. That's what I was selling. I
193. 6:45was a vendor selling physical Bitcoin
194. 6:47mining hardware. It's not a security.
195. 6:48You can depreciate it. The US government
196. 6:50seemed to just have branded Bit Club as
197. 6:54a Ponzi scheme. And I can kind of
198. 6:56sympathize [music] because at that time,
199. 6:59Bitcoin didn't make any sense to me
200. 7:01either. Quite frankly, most certainly
201. 7:04data mining operations to generate
202. 7:06Bitcoin. Like this was really a new
203. 7:09technology. It was a new concept. They
204. 7:11said there was there was no Bitcoin
205. 7:12mining. And I'm like, "No, here are the
206. 7:14invoices. Here's the tracking numbers.
207. 7:16Here's the quarter million dollars in
208. 7:17duties and customs and tariffs I paid.
209. 7:20Here's the data center. Here's the $10
210. 7:21million a month power bill. Here's
211. 7:24everybody getting paid. This was not a
212. 7:26fraudulent exercise. [music] They were
213. 7:27actually generating millions of dollars
214. 7:30and dispersing [music] it to their club
215. 7:33members.
216. 7:34>> The club was paying everybody out every
217. 7:36single day until the day the government
218. 7:38came and stole all the money. So, who
219. 7:41created the victims?
220. 7:43If there's people out there who say,
221. 7:44"Hey, Joby weeks hurt [music] me
222. 7:46financially." No, the government is who
223. 7:48hurt you financially because the
224. 7:50government is the one who seized all the
225. 7:52assets. And I've spoken to Joby about
226. 7:54[music] this and he said, "Give us back
227. 7:55the assets. Give us back the miners and
228. 7:57the Bitcoin and we can then go help make
229. 7:59people whole if there's anybody out
230. 8:01there."
231. 8:01>> I didn't join Bit Club until 16 months
232. 8:04after BitClub started. I was a vendor
233. 8:07and a member. I sold Bit Club computer
234. 8:10equipment.
235. 8:11>> Mr. Weeks wasn't the only vendor of
236. 8:14computer equipment [music] to Bit Club,
237. 8:16but for some reason, we don't really
238. 8:18know why, Mr. Weekes was the only one
239. 8:20that the US government went after.
240. 8:25So, for [music] the next 11 months, they
241. 8:28bounced me around the country from jail
242. 8:30to jail to jail to jail and state to
243. 8:32state to state. My family didn't know
244. 8:34where I was for 11 months. Denied me
245. 8:36bail, denied me a trial. Totally
246. 8:39unconstitutional, illegal. You're not
247. 8:41supposed to throw people in jail before
248. 8:42first convicting them of a crime.
249. 8:45>> Bit Club wasn't a scam. It was a startup
250. 8:48in the Wild West.
251. 8:55This was the biggest data center in the
252. 8:57world that was ever built to mine
253. 8:59Bitcoin. This was in Montana. So, we
254. 9:02filled this with servers to mine crypto.
255. 9:04And that made us the biggest Bitcoin
256. 9:06mining pool in the world. See Bit Club
257. 9:09Network. They destroyed a very good
258. 9:11thing. Very good thing for the people.
259. 9:14Horrible thing for the bankers.
260. 9:16They totally destroyed a wonderful
261. 9:18project that was helping millions of
262. 9:20people. We literally were the fastest
263. 9:22PMA to hit a billion dollars in sales
264. 9:24faster than Amazon and Google and
265. 9:25Facebook and the government just came in
266. 9:27with machine guns, stole everybody's
267. 9:29money, stole all of our equipment.
268. 9:30>> Two Colorado men are accused of fraud in
269. 9:33a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme. Joe Bodia
270. 9:37Weeks is from Arvvada, but authorities
271. 9:38arrested him in Florida. Now, I get it.
272. 9:40There were no victims on the Bit Club
273. 9:42side, but if you calculate the coin
274. 9:44market cap value of the cryptocurrency
275. 9:46industry, it's like $3 trillion. Where
276. 9:48did that $3 trillion come from? The
277. 9:51banking cartel. They don't like that. I
278. 9:54get it.
279. 9:55>> But Bitcoin was created to be open
280. 9:57source, decentralized. [music]
281. 9:59The government steps in to regulate it.
282. 10:01Doesn't that defeat the purpose? Joining
283. 10:03me now is Roger Beer, CEO of Bitcoin
284. 10:06Store. As an old saying [music] goes,
285. 10:07the pioneers take the arrows and the
286. 10:10settlers take the goods. I think because
287. 10:13Joby was first, he was [music] punished
288. 10:14for it. He was an easy fall guy to make
289. 10:17an example of and scare the living
290. 10:18daylights out of anyone who wanted to
291. 10:20tread this ground. So, of course, he was
292. 10:23targeted.
293. 10:24>> The problem is, if you break free from
294. 10:27the matrix, you're not that much of a
295. 10:30threat. He'll probably just let you
296. 10:32slide. But the second you start freeing
297. 10:35millions and millions of slaves, they
298. 10:37don't like that. The wealthy ones, the
299. 10:39ones that aren't greedy, the ones that
300. 10:41actually are using their wealth for good
301. 10:43to finance all these great disruptive
302. 10:45technologies that free humanity, those
303. 10:47are the people that they target. I could
304. 10:49have bought a 100 Rolls-Royces. I didn't
305. 10:51need any of that crap. I funded really
306. 10:54cool technology that frees humanity.
307. 10:56That's what I did. Job's actually the
308. 10:59opposite of most shrewd businessmen and
309. 11:02[music] women who are figuring ways how
310. 11:05to cut people out of things. Job's very
311. 11:07much of a person of, "Hey, everyone can
312. 11:09get rich and come join us."
313. 11:11>> So, hey, we just got to Iceland. We're
314. 11:12really excited. We uh invited about 200
315. 11:14of our friends to go check out the data
316. 11:16center, the Bitcoin mine, where we
317. 11:17process all these Bitcoin and blockchain
318. 11:19transactions around the world.
319. 11:21>> He's an innovator. He's somebody who
320. 11:23from a very young age identified new
321. 11:25emerging [music] markets, new emerging
322. 11:27technologies. That's how he got into
323. 11:30crypto. He saw it early and he spread
324. 11:32the gospel about how Bitcoin [music] was
325. 11:34going to go to $100,000 like it
326. 11:37ultimately did years later. Anyone in
327. 11:39his fear, he was advocating that they
328. 11:42make early investments to secure their
329. 11:44financial future.
330. 11:51So my attorneys come to me and they tell
331. 11:53me, "So you got two choices. 5 years in
332. 11:57jail and innocent or one year in jail
333. 12:01and guilty."
334. 12:02>> So they held him for 10 months and then
335. 12:04essentially put him in a room with a
336. 12:05bright light in his face and said, "Hey,
337. 12:07so you'd like to go free, right? I think
338. 12:09your daughter was born what, a couple of
339. 12:10weeks ago. Would you like to go see your
340. 12:12daughter?"
341. 12:12>> So if I say 2+ 2 is 4, I stay in jail
342. 12:15for 5 years. But if I admit 2+ 2 is 5, I
343. 12:17go home tomorrow. And he says, listen,
344. 12:20you can always reverse your plea
345. 12:21agreement as long as you reverse it
346. 12:23before sentencing, you're good. So I'm
347. 12:25like, great. 2+ 2 is 5. Sign the piece
348. 12:28of paper. They let me go.
349. 12:32Seems like an obvious choice to me. I
350. 12:34think anyone would decide to put the
351. 12:35ankle bracelet on and go see their
352. 12:36newborn, wouldn't you?
353. 12:38>> Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty.
354. 12:40Liberty.
355. 12:41You know your song. He really loves his
356. 12:44kids, which was one of the main reasons
357. 12:47from why I could tell that he took this
358. 12:48deal so quickly. He wanted to see his
359. 12:50children.
360. 12:51>> So then I have to send in all this
361. 12:52paperwork saying I'm reversing the
362. 12:54autograph on the police statement so
363. 12:55that I can actually get my trial. And
364. 12:57it's been 6 years and [laughter] I have
365. 13:00this anal bracelet on waiting and
366. 13:02waiting and waiting and the government
367. 13:05keeps pushing it out, pushing it out.
368. 13:07And we've gone through 12 prosecutors
369. 13:09now. The prosecutors have put on the
370. 13:11docket that they cannot take this to
371. 13:14trial. They don't have victims to
372. 13:16testify. I mean, I read the pre-trial
373. 13:20sentence report and it said,
374. 13:22"Accordingly, whether defendants's
375. 13:23conduct caused harm to any victim is
376. 13:25irrelevant.
377. 13:27[laughter]
378. 13:32They can't take me to trial. For there
379. 13:34to be a crime, there has to be a victim.
380. 13:35No victim, no crime. I can understand
381. 13:38why we've gone through now 12
382. 13:39prosecutors is because prosecutors want
383. 13:42to take on cases that can win. And the
384. 13:44judges keep just stamping, rubber
385. 13:46stamping it, rubber stamping it.
386. 13:48>> What's really crazy is if Joby was
387. 13:51convicted of this crime, his sentence
388. 13:52was 5 years.
389. 13:53>> The max sentence was 5 years. That's the
390. 13:55max. 0 to 5. It's been 2,100
391. 13:59days.
392. 14:00>> He's been under house arrest, not able
393. 14:01to leave his house for six years. Joby
394. 14:04Weekes holds the world record for the
395. 14:07human being who's been on house arrest
396. 14:09with an ankle bracelet for 6 years
397. 14:12without a trial.
398. 14:14>> I can't go anywhere or do anything or
399. 14:15have a phone or a computer or even hold
400. 14:17a remote control to a TV. I can't go to
401. 14:20church or weddings or funerals or my
402. 14:21close family members and friends. I
403. 14:23can't have a job to support my family. I
404. 14:25can't have a bank account. I can't use
405. 14:27crypto. I can't even go outside to get
406. 14:28fresh air. It's all a psychological
407. 14:31thing.
408. 14:33This ankle bracelet goes off at 3:00 in
409. 14:37the morning and then I hit it again and
410. 14:38then it goes off at 4 in the morning and
411. 14:40I hit it and beeps again. It goes off at
412. 14:425:00 in the morning. At 6:00 in the
413. 14:43morning, my wife can't sleep. Affects my
414. 14:45little child who's trying to sleep.
415. 14:48Somebody's sitting there just pressing
416. 14:49the button on this thing. I'm telling
417. 14:51you,
418. 14:53who did I harm to justify this
419. 14:56treatment?
420. 14:58Why can't I be a father to my two kids?
421. 15:04Who's doing this to me?
422. 15:07>> Well, be warned tonight. The Biden
423. 15:08administration cracking down on
424. 15:10cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.
425. 15:12>> The Justice Department has announced its
426. 15:14[music] largest ever financial seizure.
427. 15:16We're talking billions in Bitcoin.
428. 15:18>> But with the price of Bitcoin tripling
429. 15:21in value [music] just since then, it's
430. 15:23turned to be a significant windfall for
431. 15:25the government.
432. 15:26>> I saw a quote yesterday. They had said
433. 15:29all the leftover lawfare from the Biden
434. 15:31regime when it comes to crypto, [music]
435. 15:33all the victims have been made whole.
436. 15:35And I said, well, wait a minute. No,
437. 15:37there's still a few, [music] you know,
438. 15:38and Joby Weeks is one of them. I started
439. 15:40to do a deep dive into his case. We
440. 15:42could not find a single peripheral
441. 15:44promoter that had ever been charged
442. 15:46before. I brought this to the [music]
443. 15:48attention of Professor Alan Dersowitz
444. 15:51and we collaborated in pulling together
445. 15:54a white paper.
446. 15:55>> This is not simply about cryptocurrency.
447. 15:57It's about the Constitution. The white
448. 16:00paper documents a cascade of process
449. 16:02failures that taken together strip this
450. 16:04case of legitimacy. Number one,
451. 16:07retroactive charging. Weeks was indicted
452. 16:10under securities theories that did not
453. 16:11exist at the time of his conduct. Number
454. 16:14two, selective prosecution. Number
455. 16:16three, indiscriminate conspiracy
456. 16:18liability. Number four, asset seizures
457. 16:21without safeguards. Number five,
458. 16:24systematic discovery violations. Number
459. 16:26six, absence of victims in restitution.
460. 16:29Despite repeated claims, the government
461. 16:32identified no verified victims pre- plea
462. 16:34and never attempted restitution. Number
463. 16:36seven, unsettled regulatory backdrop.
464. 16:38[music]
465. 16:40Number eight, erosion of speedy trial
466. 16:42protections. By the DOJ's own current
467. 16:45standards, this case would not go
468. 16:47forward today.
469. 16:49Checkmate.
470. 16:52I noticed all kinds of [music] missing
471. 16:55documents like chain evidence logs
472. 16:57weren't right. At a minimum, uh he had
473. 17:01over a thousand bitcoin seized from him
474. 17:04and then they kind of just vanish.
475. 17:08Now we got a government more dangerous
476. 17:10to our liberties and freedoms than the
477. 17:12enemy claims to be protecting us from.
478. 17:14Government big enough to give you
479. 17:15everything you want is also strong
480. 17:17enough to take away everything you got.
481. 17:19But the problem is truth is treason in
482. 17:20an empire of lies. So
483. 17:24>> So every time that I make a request with
484. 17:27the court to do something, the
485. 17:29government responds by trying to throw
486. 17:30me in jail for some kind of bail
487. 17:32violation. They say he tested positive
488. 17:35for cocaine, your honor. Now I've been
489. 17:38getting drug tests twice a week [music]
490. 17:40for 4 years. Never failed a drug test.
491. 17:43This has nothing to do with drugs, by
492. 17:45the way.
493. 17:46So, after I saw that they said I uh
494. 17:49failed a drug test, I um requested they
495. 17:53prove it and they continued to respond
496. 17:56with silence. I decided to take it upon
497. 17:59myself to do a hair test. The hair will
498. 18:01actually hold the drugs in your hair for
499. 18:04up to a year and it just [music] came
500. 18:07back completely negative for all drugs.
501. 18:09Cocaine, opioids, methamphetamines,
502. 18:12marijuana,
503. 18:14no drugs. Negative.
504. 18:19[screaming]
505. 18:36The reason we use gratitude, by the way,
506. 18:39is the two emotions that mess us up most
507. 18:41is anger and fear.
508. 18:43And you know, you can't be grateful and
509. 18:45angry simultaneously.
510. 18:47It's the antidote.
511. 18:56I have a 3-month old baby right now.
512. 18:59He's the cutest little thing ever. And
513. 19:02as a father,
514. 19:04I can't engage. I can't go down and
515. 19:06teach him how to go swimming. Even
516. 19:08though we live on the beach,
517. 19:12at least I can be with him. Whereas with
518. 19:14my daughter, Liberty, I was taken away
519. 19:16from her and it was a horrible thing.
520. 19:20How do you explain it to a six-year-old
521. 19:22little girl? How do you explain that
522. 19:24your daddy helped a whole lot of people
523. 19:26get free and in retaliation
524. 19:30he was attacked?
525. 19:32She's only ever known me on house
526. 19:35arrest.
527. 19:36That's it.
528. 19:39She was so sad last time I saw her. And
529. 19:41I'm like, honey, you cannot be mad at
530. 19:44your mother for any of this. You can't
531. 19:45be mad at me for any of this. The people
532. 19:48that you need to hold that anger for, if
533. 19:50you need to hold anger, are the people
534. 19:52responsible for destroying our [music]
535. 19:54family. I've already forgiven them
536. 19:56because that's the best way to ground
537. 20:00and release. You don't want to hold hate
538. 20:02because hate is poison that you drink
539. 20:05think it's thinking it's going to harm
540. 20:06the other person.
541. 20:14>> [music]
542. 20:24[music]
543. 20:31>> So, I thought I'd put up some pictures
544. 20:33if at any time I start feeling a little
545. 20:35depressed or something. I can remember
546. 20:37that I had a great life and I'll have a
547. 20:39great life again soon hopefully. This is
548. 20:41my daughter Liberty. She's turning seven
549. 20:43this month. Here's me and Legendary
550. 20:45hanging out Bitcoining and out. This was
551. 20:48a a funny night with my mom. This is
552. 20:50when I proposed to Dasha. That's my dad
553. 20:52and I climbing Mount Ararat. Me and Dr.
554. 20:54Ron Paul, Dr. Liberty we call him. The
555. 20:56Vatican flew me out to meet the Pope and
556. 20:58talk about the blockchain. One time I
557. 21:00bought a submarine and took Richard
558. 21:01Branson to the bottom of the Blue
559. 21:03Lagoon. So, we bought a 747. We turned
560. 21:06it into a nightclub and brought it to
561. 21:07Burning Man. That was cool. I spent a
562. 21:09lot of Bitcoin on that one. RFK Jr.,
563. 21:11he's a stud. Love the guy. Anthony
564. 21:13Bourdain, he is a cool guy. Live free or
565. 21:15die Bitcoin in New Hampshire. Charlie
566. 21:17Shrim set up the first Bitcoin exchange
567. 21:19called Bit Instant back in the day. And
568. 21:21they threw him in jail, too. Horrible.
569. 21:24They just attacked everybody that got it
570. 21:25in early on crypto. Government. One
571. 21:28star. Very bad. Would not recommend.
572. 21:30They can take your car. They can take
573. 21:32your house. They can take your freedom.
574. 21:34They can take your bank account. But
575. 21:36they can't take your memories.
576. 21:39[music]
577. 22:13When I met Joby, I immediately could
578. 22:16feel his genuine enthusiasm for life
579. 22:20despite his ludicrous circumstances. to
580. 22:23be able to find happiness even in the
581. 22:25darkest moments, even in I mean, I'm
582. 22:27sure he wasn't like bubbling with joy
583. 22:29while he was in solitary confinement.
584. 22:31But regardless of the fact that you
585. 22:33can't leave the house, you can't work
586. 22:35out, you can't go to the mailbox,
587. 22:37>> you can't go on a date,
588. 22:38>> you can't go on a honeymoon, I don't
589. 22:41understand how it is that the the judge
590. 22:43just continuously [music] allows us to
591. 22:44go on and on.
592. 22:47>> It's kind of wild. I mean, I went from
593. 22:49going to hundreds of countries a year
594. 22:51for 15 straight years to being locked in
595. 22:55a box and isolated.
596. 22:58That would normally break most people. I
597. 23:00mean, that's why they put people in
598. 23:01solitary confinement to break people.
599. 23:04But when you have complete control over
600. 23:06your mind, you become unbreakable.
601. 23:10>> President Trump today signing the
602. 23:11landmark Genius Act into [music] law.
603. 23:13It's the first major piece of crypto
604. 23:15legislation in US history. The SEC said
605. 23:18Thursday that proofof work crypto mining
606. 23:22as seen with Bitcoin and Dogecoin does
607. 23:25not fall under its definition of
608. 23:26securities.
609. 23:27>> Yeah, you can't punish someone for being
610. 23:30early and you can't punish someone for
611. 23:32being right. what Joby was doing mining
612. 23:35Bitcoin. [music] Not only were there no
613. 23:37laws against this, but today there are
614. 23:40people who are starting Bitcoin mining
615. 23:42companies in America and ringing the
616. 23:44bell on the NASDAQ floor.
617. 23:48And with the [music] Genius Act coming
618. 23:50through and essentially for all intents
619. 23:52and purposes clearing Joby, I plead with
620. 23:55anyone to facilitate his release as soon
621. 23:58as possible so he can spend time freely
622. 24:00with his family and not have to worry
623. 24:02[music] about someone kidnapping him in
624. 24:03the middle of the night.
625. 24:05The best way out of this is to dismiss
626. 24:09the charges, give him his belongings
627. 24:11back, and let him get back to doing good
628. 24:14works for humanity.
629. 24:16I still have a lot of friends that
630. 24:17believe in me and want to do business
631. 24:19with me and um they all know I'm
632. 24:21innocent, which is great. Um because you
633. 24:25know, most people if they ripped off 1
634. 24:27million people and stole $700 million,
635. 24:32they wouldn't have any friends left.
636. 24:33[laughter]
637. 24:34>> To believe that [music] Mr. weeks had
638. 24:37criminal fraudulent intent. You have to
639. 24:39believe that he set out to defraud
640. 24:41[music] his close friends, his close
641. 24:44business associates, his closest family
642. 24:46members, including his parents, cousins.
643. 24:50[music] Doesn't make any sense.
644. 24:52Meanwhile, they all made robust returns.
645. 24:57We're in America. We have a
646. 24:58responsibility. There's people all over
647. 25:0040,000 people a [music] day die of
648. 25:01starvation. Takes money to fix that.
649. 25:04Sick and poor people can't help as many
650. 25:06sick and poor people as rich [music] and
651. 25:07healthy people can. You have a
652. 25:09responsibility. You live in this
653. 25:10country. You can leverage yourself. You
654. 25:11can use technology. Get yourself [music]
655. 25:13rich so you can bless other people. And
656. 25:15I'm telling you, if you need money, you
657. 25:16give it first.