Well-liked podcaster Joe Rogan simply will get Bitcoin (BTC). In his most up-to-date podcast with Khalil Rountree, a famend blended martial (MMA) fighter, Rogan defined that BTC is one thing that the “authorities didn’t see coming.”

“I consider Bitcoin the identical means I consider the early web. They [the government] didn’t see it coming and now it’s a viable type of forex–you possibly can truly purchase issues with it.”

Rogan defined that there can be a time when “some authorities” will implement a “centralized forex that they will management,” with the intention to “restrict what you spend your cash on.” Bitcoin is outdoors of presidency management, as it’s a decentralized and permissionless cost community.

Rogan is a vocal Bitcoin supporter, having first spoken concerning the world’s largest cryptocurrency in 2014. Rogan defined to Andreas Antonopoulos in 2016 that he was “all in”on staff Bitcoin when the value was underneath $1,000.

Whereas 2021 was the yr that well-liked celebrities clamored for crypto, Joe Rogan’s conviction for Bitcoin ossified and advanced.

Rogan has ventured deeper down the Bitcoin rabbit gap: In solely January this yr, Rogan had hope for Bitcoin however defined it may nonetheless “collapse.” In yesterday’s MMA podcast, Rogan’s conviction shined.

The Joe Rogan Expertise is Spotify’s hottest show, reportedly reaching over 11 million listeners per episode. Anthony Pompliano claimsthat he present is greater than Fox Information and CNN mixed.

His MMA podcast is a part of the “expertise,” and Khalil Rountree has been a earlier visitor. Within the YouTube excerpt with focuses on Bitcoin, Khalil Rountree shares his “Bitcoin awakening,” discussing how his household by no means had “generational wealth” earlier than BTC.

Rountree is an American blended martial artist who presently competes within the mild heavyweight division of the Final Preventing Championship. Whereas admitting he’s not a tech or finance man, he’s “excited” concerning the know-how, and attended Bitcoin Miami 2022.

Rountree cited the North Korean defector china Yeonmi Park, a speaker at Bitcoin Miami 2022 who escaped the regime because of Bitcoin and its freedom properties.

YouTube feedback on the episode are hopeful that Jack Mallers, the CEO of Strike,can be featured quickly, or failing that, one other Bitcoin-maxi, Jack Dorsey, the previous CEO of Twitter.

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For one Bitcoiner on Twitter, Michael Saylor showing on the JRE would create the identical hype as a spot exchange-traded fund(ETF):

Precisely proper – @saylor happening the @joerogan podcast is the subsequent large catalyst for elevated consciousness and adoption of #Bitcoin as probably the most sound cash on the earth. Or the SEC permitting $GBTC to transform to a spot ETF. @GaryGensler @BarrySilbert @Sonnenshein

— Dr. Ben Kim (@Ben_Kim) May 3, 2022

The “Bitcoin awakening” video has already been viewed over 100,00 instances, whereas Joe Rogan remains to be on the high of the Spotify United States podcast charts.