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$FTMX: The Rebellion Against the Matrix🎙️
Recorded: Aug. 21, 2025 Duration: 0:46:27Space Recording
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Thank you. Music Thank you. Music so
all right ready to get started.
We got Fuck the Matrix in the house.
I granted you requests or I've given you a opening to come up on Speak on Stage,
but don't see you up here yet.
Make sure to request so that I can pull you up and we can get this AMA started.
so that I can pull you up and we can get this AMA started.
Curious to hear about what this rebellion against the Matrix is all about.
Sounds exciting.
All right, let me give you another invite to speak.
And and fuck the matrix who do we have on the mic today hey what's happening brother it's josh
josh what's going on man how are you i'm doing great man good to meet you
good to meet you too so so what's wrong with the matrix what's going on with that
well i'm sure like everybody else everybody's sick and wrong with the matrix? What's going on with that? Well, I'm sure like everybody else, everybody's sick and tired of the matrix.
We're all trapped.
Let's define the matrix first.
So for anyone that doesn't know what the matrix is, because you'd be surprised.
What do you mean by the matrix?
So to me, the matrix is this fake world that we live in, right?
When we're born, we get a birth certificate and we're given a fake identity that we all
believe that we are.
And then we go get a bank account with that.
We get married with that.
We get a driver's license with that.
We get trapped in all these contracts.
Then we got obligated to pay taxes.
And basically, we're just dealing with a system that has trapped us from being human,
you know, from being able to enjoy the earth and be free.
I don't believe that we were put on earth to be a part of this system where we have to get up every day,
work, give 40% of our money to the government, you know,
and then watch what they do with all of our money.
It's pretty ridiculous.
No, that's a reasonable concern. I think a lot of people have that same concern,
especially when it comes to... I mean, I think most people would be okay with taxes if they
could decide what part of the infrastructure, what part of the machine those taxes go to.
I agree. I agree.
I have no problem. I would literally, and you can,
I would pay 60% taxes. If I could choose, if I could say, this is where I want my money funneled
to, right? I want, I want better infrastructure. I want better doctors in my community. I don't
want homelessness. I want people to have a kind of a bottom line of living. So, so tell me, what are you guys cooking up? What is your,
what is your plan to fuck the matrix? So the biggest thing for me is, so I have a successful
company already and I've got a pretty massive following on social media as well, but I basically
teach people how to get out of this banking system that we're all a part of. I teach people how to operate out of private
trust, private foundations, where you literally can basically legally get rid of almost all of
the tax that you pay by operating out of a private entity that was not created by legislative law.
So the whole fuck the matrix movement is taking this concept that I've been doing for over 10 years and freeing people from the banking system and basically putting people in a position where we can now create an actual community.
to all the shit that's going on in the world right now. And I don't really feel like there's a safe
space or community for people to really go be a part of where they can talk freely about all
these things that we're finding out, but also be able to talk to each other about money. You know,
one of the things the government doesn't want is they don't want us all getting together and
figuring out their system. We're all a part of this monopoly board, right? And they don't want us to know all the rules.
And when we all get together as a community,
which is what we're doing with FTMX,
is that we're going to create a social media platform
on the blockchain where people can come
and do all the things they do on Twitter
and on Instagram and Facebook.
And we're going to bring the best of all of those worlds into this platform on the blockchain where people can basically tokenize their brand, create their own coin.
And instead of people just liking your post or commenting on your post,
they can actually invest in what you're doing.
So it's going to be a community where people will be rewarded
based off the content they're providing,
the value that they're providing to the community.
And then people that like to invest in crypto
can come to the platform and basically do research.
Look at the top influencers,
look at the top 10 newest people that got on the platform
and see what value they're bringing
based on their content and whatever they're offering, and then be able to invest in that
person and help them become successful.
And right now, Instagram and Facebook really control every influencer's revenue, and they
can shut you off with the flip of a switch.
Oh, it happened to this account, man.
It happened to this account. We flip of a switch. Oh, it happened to this account, man. It happened to this account.
We were on a roll.
We were one of the,
we probably the number two biggest spaces on crypto
back in late 2023.
And I think it was some shady shit that happened
where our account got banned for no reason,
no reason given.
No one at X would give us nothing.
We couldn't get in touch with anyone.
You have this cabal.
I know I for sure know about this. It's a cabal that works at Twitter, at X.
A hundred percent, bro. And they get paid to silence people.
Exactly. And if they get paid enough by bigger accounts that want to crush you,
they will ban your account. They will delete your account, whatever.
And so, yeah, look, man, I'm all about I wish there was a way for people to build up followings and build up influence without having a third party being able to take that away from us.
But I just don't really I don't really see anything that's been able to displace it.
I don't really see anything that's been able to displace it.
And we've had crypto, Web3, with the potential to do it for at least five years.
Yep.
You know what?
I think it just comes down to someone with big enough balls to do it
because you're literally going up against the beast.
You're going up against the Zuckerberg and the Elon Musk.
And for anybody that knows me and my
background and what i do i have no fucking problem competing with these guys you know i i i will not
be silenced number one but number two i believe that if we build a fair platform that influencers
can come to look because at the end of the day when people are making money somewhere and they feel that it's fair.
They'll stay there.
And right now influencers are not happy with X and Instagram.
We stay there because we have to.
You know, because like you said, there's really nobody else that's ever gone up against them.
So it really is kind of a monopoly.
But I believe that if we can build the right platform and get the right people behind it.
I don't think it's a question of if we can do better than they've done.
We just need to build something better.
But at the same time, we need to bring a community together.
And I believe that by merging social media with blockchain
and giving influencers the ability to come and sign up on our site
where we create a token for them and even be the first one to invest in it.
The platform can actually invest in every influencer that comes on and then provide
ways to help them market their brand. Because at the end of the day, I think Instagram and X,
they don't really give a fuck about your success. They just want to make money and they want to make
sure that you're staying in line with
the narrative.
I want to change that.
I want to build a place where people can come and talk about whatever they want to talk
about and people can reward that with investing in their token.
You know, if somebody's saying something that they, you know, most people don't agree with,
then people just won't invest in their coin, you know, most people don't agree with, then people just won't invest in their
coin, you know? And I believe that also on Instagram and all these other platforms,
they can fake it. They can fake likes and fake comments and, you know, they can fake
what's actually going on, but you can't fake that when people are investing in something.
I know, I totally agree with you. And I'm sure you're familiar with the dead internet
theory, right? Remind me. I've probably heard it before. It's relatively new. I mean, it's this
idea that the internet, if not already, will eventually, it's going to eventually be made
up of mostly bots and AI content, right? Yeah. You know what? I have heard about that before.
of mostly bots and AI content, right?
Yeah, you know what?
I have heard about that before.
Yep, I've actually,
I think I watched a documentary on that
showing how you could literally be like
active on Facebook
and not even talking to one real person.
Right.
Is that what you,
that's basically what you're talking about, right?
No, no, no.
I mean, look, also like in a nutshell,
the idea is that the majority of the internet
is going to be bots and AI content.
Like humans will be the minority.
But I want to bring this back to you guys, like what you guys are doing, what you're building.
Give me the nuts and bolts, right?
What's happening?
Well, we're going to build our own blockchain first.
So we just deployed a token, obviously.
And we're using that to just have a way to bring the community together right now and obviously raise some money. And then we're starting our blockchain development first alongside the app
that we're, that we're building. And we're looking at hopefully about a six to eight month phase one
deployment. So let me ask, I mean, I don't want to,
why launch your own blockchain
when you can be on a blockchain like Solana
or Ethereum or an Ethereum L2?
Why put yourself...
Just to have control.
We want to have control.
We don't want anybody over us
and we don't want our success
to be
dependent on anything else right but but aren't you aren't you guys is it going to be an evm
blockchain you're kind of siloing yourself off from all this liquidity that's where i would want
to bring my dev in if he's on right now okay well i'm just hey look and i i don't have i'm not saying
i'm right i don't know what the answer is but the way that I'm thinking about it is, and if the dev wants to request, I can bring
them up.
I just feel like you guys are, you know, if you guys were on an EVM layer two, for example,
if you built your own layer two instead of your own blockchain, then at least you have
much easy, much, you're able to much easily, much easily, much more easily pull liquidity and attract investors from the EVM ecosystem
because you have all these bridges that have been built.
Absolutely.
Yeah, David is on right now, I believe.
He should be requesting to jump on right now.
All right.
I want to stay in my lane.
So what do you guys got coming up?
Tell me.
What do you guys got coming up? Is me. What do you guys got coming up?
Is a private sale happening yet?
Have you had a private raise?
Public sale?
Yeah, we just started our round one pre-sale four days ago.
We had a two-week goal of hitting a goal.
And we're four days in, and we're over 90% of the way there already.
So round one will probably be wrapped up tonight.
And we're doing three rounds and then we're listing and we're going public.
Brilliant. Brilliant. Oh, and we got David coming up.
Yes, he should be on now.
Yeah, we're killing it right now, bro. We're're really excited i mean the the feedback that we've
gotten in the short amount of time that we've started this has just been incredible are you
on david hey guys yes what's going on david how are you brother yes i'm very good how are you
guys doing good good so so one of the questions I had was, you know, you're building your own blockchain. And I'm just curious to know why you wouldn't build a layer two or just launch on a layer one like Ethereum or Solana so that you have exposure to all those users and all that liquidity.
Yeah, absolutely. We are building a layer two here.
Oh, okay. Yeah are building a layer two here. Oh, okay.
Yeah, yeah.
Ethereum?
Ethereum what?
Yeah, we are using Ethereum and we are building a layer two and we will have rollups as well where we can bridge Ethereum with, because the utility lies on Ethereum right now.
So we will bridge that with our own blockchain, which is a layer two.
Technically, yes, for your answer I see I see okay and and is what's going to be
the gas token the matrix token the FT the ftmx token yes absolutely that will
be the native token for that I see I see okay and then how far along have you
guys built it are you using the OP stack? Tell me about the architecture.
Well, the architecture is,
so we are using a tool to run all the depth,
so our social media app will be running on top of it.
So anyone who is using the service will use Onchain in that case.
And we really don't want to give much on the architecture here
because we are thinking of a few new things
which we will be implementing on the roadmap as well.
So basically what we have is we will have the layer 2
is we will have the layer 2 and our apps where we want to scale it for every users to launch their
own token and to monetize on their own content so there will be a lot of
minting happening so we want to have that scalability
So we want to have that scalability.
So that's the whole idea of it.
And we are in the process of publishing our JIT books.
So when we have that, all the information, technicalities,
everything will be publicly available.
So we'll be publishing it in the next three weeks.
So yeah, keep your notifications on and it will be there.
You guys have a sale coming up, right?
Yeah, we're in pre-sale right now.
How much have you raised? And what chain are you raising on?
We've raised almost $400,000 and we're on ethereum right now
brilliant brilliant so we've got a we've got a pre-sale website so people can just connect a
web3 wallet to it and then we deposit the tokens right in their wallet right now pre-sale round
one will probably end tonight uh i think we're only about 10 or 15,000 away, so it'll probably end pretty quick, and then we're going into round two.
And so what's the next step, right?
When the Layer 2 launches, what do you guys have planned?
As far as what do you mean?
So the Layer 2 is going to launch.
And how are you planning on attracting users? How are you planning on?
So I already have a lot of users.
What are you guys building on the layer two?
Is it just going to be a social media platform that's built in the layer two?
It's going to be a social media platform that's going to combine all the best things of Instagram, Facebook, TikTok.
We're going to have the ability for a content creator to launch a store like a TikTok store.
We'll have communities.
We'll have discussion boards.
People will be able to just post videos.
And then we're also going to have the ability for content creators to launch and create courses.
the ability for content creators to launch and create courses.
So, you know, if they're a yoga teacher or a crypto teacher or a trader or whatever,
they can actually create video courses, sell those,
and then people will be able to use the tokens that they're buying through the platform
to spend back on these things.
So like, for example, if I'm a content creator, people can buy my token
and then they can use that token to purchase my courses
Going to my tiktok store where I can put merch in there
So we're really creating a social media platform that acts like a business for somebody
Where they're gonna have multiple ways that they can turn on different revenue streams
And literally run a business off of this social media platform are you guys
working with any big content creators um i have quite a few that i work with actually that will
be going public with us here pretty soon um i mean i've i've got over a million followers just
between my platform so one of the main reasons i built this is because I have built such a large following. I'm like probably the number one or number two guy in
the niche that I'm in on all of social media. So I mean, just the collective following that I have
alone will probably get hundreds of thousands of users. But yeah, I mean, I'm a marketer. That's
what I do. I have a marketing marketing company so I'm putting my own
money behind marketing this and we're going to be very aggressive about it once we deploy it
because we do believe it's going to be the best place for somebody to come and build their brand
and protect it and control their audience and control their money. So are you able to, is your main social media account undocs?
What's that?
So what's your social, you said you're like top in your niche.
What's your social media account?
Are you undocs?
So IG is Real Intelligent Banker.
And then my Facebook is BankWithJosh.
Okay. And then I just started BankWithJosh. Okay.
And then I just started on X probably about two weeks ago.
It's Trust Your Assets on X.
I got you.
Okay.
And so you have these big social media platforms.
You have this layer two that's launching.
You have the FTMX token that's going to power everything. 75% fair launch.
Where is the other 25% going? So 20% is locked over five years and that's going to be dispersed
in increments to support building out our technology. So I think the first disbursements
in like six months, then another six months, then another year, then another year and a half, then another year and a half.
So it's locked over the course of the next five years, which is to really show people that we're here for a long-term project.
This isn't just something we're trying to throw up and make a quick buck.
This is a long-term project that we're going to make those disbursements periodically
over the course of five years to invest back into the tech and the team.
Okay. How are you guys marketing apart from AMAs?
Mainly social media. That's where my biggest influence is. Yeah. I mean, just with my
Rolodex of influencers and the other companies that I own and do business, I've got followers there as well.
And it all kind of commingles into what I'm doing with this whole Matrix thing.
Beautiful.
How big is the team?
We've got about, with developers and everything, probably about 20 of us right now.
Okay.
Okay, wow.
So you guys are pretty big.
You have quite a few developers working on this.
Yeah, and one of the advantages, too, with me is I actually know my developers.
I know a lot of people hire developers in other countries and things,
and I actually know my developers, and I've spent a lot of time with them.
I'm back and forth. They're out in time with them. I'm back and forth.
They're out in Sri Lanka and I'm back and forth between the US and there.
So I spend a lot of time with my dev team.
Brilliant.
Okay, so is there anything that I haven't asked about that you find important to highlight
right now?
You have this community-centric economy.
You want money to stay in the network you
want creators to come and be able to create on the social media layer that you guys are building
you want direct creator monetization so you know you want you don't want a middleman right are you
guys are is the is the blockchain earning any fees or is everything going straight to the creators that I don't know exactly David you still
on are you talking about once the site is live yeah we're I'm trying to build a fee-free site
I mean there's other there's other ways we can generate revenue but I'm trying to keep the actual
monetization of the content to the creator I think the way that we're looking to
make money is by investing in that creator. When they launch their token, we buy into their token
and then we spend marketing and advertising dollars promoting our top influencers,
helping to drive traffic to their content to get them to be supported.
So it's really the more successful our users are, the more successful that we are.
One of the other values about being a part of our whole FTM community is all of the knowledge
that I have. Because one of the things that we're going to be deploying inside of this app
are all the training courses that I charge tens of thousands of dollars for.
I teach people literally how to take any business and reduce or eliminate your income tax completely,
legally, the way that the wealthy do. I offer a trust. I work with foundations. I have a life
insurance company. So I teach people how to take the money
that they're earning and multiply it the way that the wealthy do. So one of the big reasons I'm
building this app is so that I can put all of my content on there for free and give it, give access
to the whole world. Because right now, obviously I have to charge for it you know and i'm tired of charging for it so i want to deploy a system i'm getting myself in a position where you know the
company's money can go completely and directly back into ensuring that our content creators can
have the most success that they ever can by supporting them versus just taking their money
wow okay i mean I've literally seen,
and you've probably seen this too. I've seen content creators that have literally made Facebook
and Instagram millions of dollars, tens of millions of dollars. And because they go against
the narrative one time, they shut them down. Yep. And I'm sick of that shit. You know what I mean?
People make them all this money
and then they can just shut their livelihood down by the click of one button because one
person disagreed with what they said. And then like you said, it's hard to even get ahold of
these companies. So it's like TikTok keeps shutting my account down. I don't even post
on there anymore because they review all my videos now. So literally I'll post on, on, uh,
tick tock and it'll show your video is being reviewed. And I'm like, when the fuck did they
start reviewing videos? And then I'll get a letter saying, Oh, your video went to went against our
guidelines, but they won't even tell me how it went against the guidelines, nor am I allowed to
ask any questions. And when you appeal it,
you just press a button and then you get an email saying, oh, sorry, we denied your appeal.
That's the kind of stuff I'm talking about. And that's what I mean by fuck the matrix.
The matrix doesn't give a shit about any of us.
No, look, I, I, I don't entirely disagree with you. And why do you think is TikTok specifically the one that's...
I don't know.
Honestly, brother, I can't figure that out.
I thought TikTok was the most free to speak.
But I guess it's the subject that I'm speaking about.
I mean, obviously, the government doesn't want anybody out there educating people on how to legally not pay taxes.
Right. Right.
Right.
I want to dive a bit more into the token because we haven't talked too much about the token.
Give me the different components of its utility.
Well, the main utility is going to be powering this platform.
It's going to be minting a token for every user, and all of those tokens
will be a layer underneath, obviously,
our blockchain.
And the utility is going to be being able
to use that money on our platform
for various different things.
Purchasing education, purchasing courses,
shopping in the store,
making money by investing in people's tokens.
I mean, to me, the utility is going to be actually being able to get someone out of the matrix
by using our platform.
It's going to be a literal tool that people can use to get out of the matrix.
Did I lose you?
There we go.
You're back.
You're back.
How do you guys make sure this is something that keeps its value protected and grows over a long period of time?
Well, it's backed by my company, and my company's been in business for 10 years.
So the financial backing of what I'm –
Tell us about that.
So my company's been around for almost 10 years.
I have a copyright on these particular trusts that I'm talking about.
And we've probably done, I don't know,
80 to $100 million in revenue over the last 10 years.
I'm a licensed insurance agent, so I'm a fiduciary.
I'm not going nowhere.
My whole livelihood, I have a professional license.
And obviously, I can't do anything to jeopardize that as well.
So you've got a fully legitimate decade-year-old company that's behind the whole mission here.
Tell me about what makes this a deflationary token.
What makes it deflationary?
Well, that's what you have listed on your site.
Yeah, well, there's a fixed supply.
There's a fixed supply.
And then is there a burn over a long period of time?
Yes.
We have a burning mechanism as well.
Like we burn depends on...
So we collect tax., so we collect tax.
It's one person tax.
So whatever comes, we plan to burn to keep the market, the value of the coconut.
I see.
Okay.
We have planned.
Can you dive into the specific burn mechanisms?
So we have periodically planned a burning mechanism.
So we have already locked some amount of tokens on gem pad,
which is dedicated to that we're going to burn over the period of next five years.
Understood.
And then governance voting,
that's also another utility for the token.
Tell me about how your governance system is going to work.
So we will have a closed loop governance,
which means people who hold FDMX and they can stake.
So what do you mean by staking for long period of time,
they would have a governance mechanism to afford for certain functionalities that they want to see on the next future or what they want to have on the next roadmap of these movements. It's a moment like everyone collectively decides. So we plan to hear the community voice.
We want everyone to be on board and give their ideas.
And the governance is for controlling,
not totally controlling, but giving out ideas,
what is good and take decision on behalf of everyone who in the community.
Yeah. So this is on the social media site, like they can actually decide
and do voting by holding more tokens like staking tokens.
And David, staking is going live this weekend, correct?
It will be probably going live this weekend, yes.
Okay, so you guys also have about 10% that are going to ecosystem and airdrops.
So community incentives, quest campaigns, contributor rewards.
Can you break those three down?
Yes.
So we have planned to give away 10% for airdrops.
Whoever supports the community, whoever we see more active on the community like who really supports
and we have airdrops which all these things will happen after the pre-sales
and so we'll be having a plan and it will be over the period of five years
again and we break down that and we will be airdropping and rewards for people who are contributing and also we have rewards on staking.
So yeah, a lot of things coming up and we will be releasing our Gitbook in next three months which will have all the details
plan of what the platform is and what and where we are going towards so that
would give more comprehensive details about each and everything that we have
planned but now to be publicly publicly visible we have locked all the tokens on the impact so you can go and check out
that so it's we have reserved it so the next stages that we will be releasing
our X naught on how we gonna distribute on the drops and what are the rewards. We will have also rewards for developers who come on board and contribute.
So there are a lot of things planned up.
We'll be releasing all these on the next couple of days.
So lots coming up.
You guys are hopefully listing on centralized exchanges as well since so much volume is
there.
Are you guys able to tell me what sexes you're currently in talks with?
Currently, we have been planned with GetIO on discussion, but that is not an immediate
plan that we have that we will be going to list.
But along the way, yes, we will be listing on a centralized exchange.
Brilliant, brilliant.
And then, guys, tell me what we can do, what the people listening can do right now to support
you.
Right now, really, it's just getting in on these early
rounds we're not looking for um you know people that just want to come in and make a quick buck
that's why we do have a minimum uh it's 0.25 eth in round one and then it goes down to 0.2
round two um right now the price is 0.005. So we have a minimum because we want people that
are going to buy and hold, right? We want people that see the vision of what we're doing and what
we're building to come and support that, whether it's just putting in a little bit or a lot.
That's just showing your support that it's something that you believe in.
And that's really what we need right now. These first three rounds, we're really looking to build a solid foundation
with a lot of holders that are obviously not massive amounts so that we can have a really
thick base. So that as we really go out and start investing our marketing dollars,
we've got a very thick foundation
uh of support there which is one of the reasons why we're getting on and trying to do these amas and stuff is to really get into the community and kind of share our vision of what we're doing
because this isn't a meme coin right we're not looking to just pump this thing up in 24 hours and
and then exit you know we're looking for people that that have long-term vision, that can hold the
line with us as we build and develop this out. And they will be very, very handsomely rewarded for
that over the coming years. All right, guys. So now I want to throw the ball over to you and tell me what about this ecosystem excites you the most coming up in the next two to three months.
And also highlight some components that we haven't covered yet.
Look through your site.
Look through your documents.
your documents but i'm sure there there are nuggets of innovation that you guys might not
have on the website that you're currently cooking up so i really want to i really want to open the
floor up to you to tell us everything else that you think we should know about what this fuck the
matrix layer two and ecosystem is all about well i can tell you what I'm most excited about is just being able to pull
a community together in a fair place where everybody can talk and not be afraid of what
they're talking about. I've been looking for a place like that for a long time. And honestly,
it gets me excited because I don't feel like a place like that exists right now.
One of the other things I'm excited about is being able to give away all my content for free.
You know, right now I make money off of Instagram,
you know, through my companies and things like that.
But the information that I have is too valuable.
And part of what we're going to build into this platform
that's going to be accessible to everybody
is basically a course on how money works,
how the matrix works,
how the whole financial and banking system works.
So I don't see this as just another platform.
This is going to be a place
that people are going to come and actually learn,
learn how to communicate with other people as well
without arguing and fighting
and having constructive discussions. But I mean, I'm really excited to see people come over here and make money as well without arguing and fighting and having constructive discussions.
But I mean, I'm really excited to see people come over here and make money as well.
I know a lot of influencers and they have a lot of struggles with TikTok and Instagram
and Facebook and they change things all the time.
We just want to have a cut and dry platform that's fair for everybody.
And to be honest with you, that's what I'm the most excited about I'm most excited about building this thing out and
And seeing this idea to come into fruition. I
Love it, David. What about you?
Right, yeah, the
Yeah, what I love about this is we bring all the content creators, everyone together
at one vision that we want to escape from the matrix.
And like the decentralization of it, like let's say your content that you own and your own
power of that
so technically
developing
for Mars
it's quite interesting
for us as well
so I'm really
excited about this.
I think that's the biggest thing too,
is content creators being able to feel like they own their actual content.
Well, I think, I think it's that right.
Because for me building on Twitter,
mainly on Twitter, my team and I for the last four years, and having to really kind of rebuild two years, you know, rebuild at the end of 2023, because we lost the count, we finally got it back.
We were on such a high and we had so much potential and we still do. But it really – I think it kind of gave me PTSD because I'm like, well, is this going to randomly happen again?
And I think a lot of people – with YouTube, I feel like YouTube actually gives you a reason.
They have a strike system.
You can actually get in touch with somebody.
And they give you clear guidelines of what you can and can't talk about.
And so I see them as almost an employer.
Hey, you know, you can't talk about this.
You can talk about that.
And I think the way that YouTube approaches it is and I'm speaking in relative terms is a lot more fair than what I've seen happen on Twitter.
I'm not too familiar with Instagram, to be honest with you, and how they operate.
But ultimately, like you said, you said it perfectly, the fact that we don't own what
we're creating online is a problem, right? You can make arguments, well, you wouldn't be creating
online if these big companies hadn't built the ecosystems. You're right. You can always make
arguments. But the bottom line is that we have the technology to build out a social media platform.
You just need to get it big enough and need to get people a reason to use it.
But we have the tech to build out something where there's governance, right?
If someone's, God forbid, putting up child prawn or someone is being like extremely like a bully or racist or whatever
right there should be governance to deal with that but you shouldn't just pull the rug on someone
for talking about something controversial when they're just you know staying within the parameters
of respect and and you know having integrity so i mean i i just for me it's just i i think
i want to see the day where this happens and i like that you guys are you're coming at it with
so much tenacity you know i think that owning your own content is part of it but the other part of it
is like you said how much of that money is going to
Twitter? How much of that money is going to YouTube, to Instagram, to TikTok? And again,
they're businesses. They deserve to get paid because they're the ones that are providing
the platform. But what if, right? Like you're saying, what if we could build something that
allows us to create the same way we create on these platforms. But now we own it, right?
We, the community owns it.
And then we also own all the money we generate or most of them.
I still, you know, I still, and maybe you guys have this, have this in mind, but I still do think there should be a mechanism where you're earning fees as well, because that's how you help the ecosystem grow, right?
That's how you guys help better the
i agree i agree in like some small fees for like maintenance of the of the system you know what i
mean because obviously the system's got to stay up to date stay innovative stay on the cutting edge
so i do agree with some small fees to pour back into the system you, what I'm talking about is feeling like I make all the content,
I invest in all my equipment, my time, my team, all the editing, and then like 30, 40, 50% of it
stays with Instagram or Facebook, you know, because they think, well, you wouldn't have
the customer if it wasn't for our platform. I want content to creators to feel that they have a fair deal, you know
Kind of like with taxes, you know, I mean it's like with taxes like you said if they were spending my money
On things that I agreed with then I wouldn't mind paying taxes so much
But when I feel like I'm just getting jacked and I have no say so that's when I have an issue, you know
No, totally David, did have an issue, you know? No, totally.
David, did you want to add anything there?
David, you're muted.
Oh, I don't see him on anymore, brother.
I just see listener.
Oh, no, no, no worries.
But look, I mean, I think we have really highlighted what you guys are trying to build, your goals, the solution you're trying to provide, or rather the problem you're trying to provide a solution to.
And if there's anything else to discuss, go ahead and share it now.
Otherwise, I think this is a good time for us to close out the space and we can talk offline about
how else we can support you guys, especially when the time comes for a presale.
Absolutely, brother. Yeah, I would appreciate that. People can go.
Is the fair launch underway right now?
Yeah, people can go to our website right now at ftmtoken.io,
and they can go through their Web3 wall,
and they can actually make a purchase right now.
Brilliant.
Okay, got it.
I think we've got about 10 million of 80 million tokens
from round one already sold.
So we're right at the very end of round one.
And there's a video towards the bottom
of the website is that you speaking on video yeah that's me talking about some of the things that i
just talked to you about with jim brewer yeah i was actually on jim brewer's podcast talking about
taxes and trusts and just basically fuck the matrix that's really cool i think you could maybe move that a bit higher on the website so people don't miss it
because this is you're here on a big you're here on a big podcast right so
yeah Jim Brewer Jim Brewer is an awesome guy too it's actually a really good
podcast right on then but I appreciate you having me on, man. You've really done a great job. We've had a great time talking to you.
Absolutely.
Look forward to talking offline.
Yes, sir.
Of course.
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