(Dave Portnoy)
'This Dude named Jack Mallers..Mallers?
He's like the toast of Bitcoin, right now
He was on 60 Minutes
So, I went out to lunch with him
& I really actually liked Him
You won't hear me say this too much about people
But I thought He was Brilliant
And a Gigantic student, he was like
"I was writing the code while watching The Rundown."'
(Verse 1)
Im the most ridiculous person that you never met
Still ain’t touch 100 grand, But I get respect
Cause of what I done and who I’m with
Shook hands with the goats, billionaires
Im with mallers surfing waves we don’t rent boats
And just float
Kick it back and just hope
We really made it happen
Made it happen?
Continuin' to make it happen
You think I’m joking? You only hopin'
Turn on the TV
Tune in cause when the love speaks, I put it on repeat
And then I let God speak through me
(Verse 2)
Naquan’s ballin out for the titans now
Chasing dreams
Did his thing
I know his mama proud
Last time I saw him
Was at Simon’s funeral
I saw him amongst a large crowd
I swear The guy is just stand out
I still look up to the sky and I question why?
I gotta see children bury mothers
I seen parents bury children, sheddin tears until the tears run dry
Grandparents singing songs to the angels that sound like when the doves cry
Youngest brothers bury mothers at a young age, I just can’t understand why?
The youngins deserve to hear
Someone with experience
And a good word for the ear
It’s true
The whole world is acting out
And parents get away from being parents
They wanna move with the cool crowd
It’s stressing me out
I gotta question how I move now, do I set a good example?
Did I pave a path to follow?
(Verse 3)
Imagine all the sleepless nights, people cry. Children got hunger in they stomachs and I know the ‘why’
I done met the devil twice, and on the second time
I got the courage to ask
Could he get the Demons from out my ears
They keep asking about my past
He told me
“walk to the end of the sidewalk
And speak to G-O-D
Cause
It was They
Who put us here. But Y’all disguise
The hate and bad on the bigger guy
When really it’s inside of each benefiting teeter to either side.”
And ever since then I seen my why
Feed the good and be the guy, to spread the energy of the truest human mind. I speak through my spine
[15-Year-Old Testifying on Behalf of Young Thug, during the 2022 RICO Case against the Artist.]
"Are you a member of YSL?"
"Well, I'm not signed to the label, on papers."
"What is YSL to you?
"We spoke on it. Other than, you know, the name of label, Young Stoner Life Records. I told em my YSL means Young Successful Life, cause that's something he's created. He is a young successful man, Himself, but also he has helped more young Men and young Women have successful lives, such as myself, for example. & that is why my YSL stands for Young Successful Life because that is what He has done and that is wha the has now created and shown to put into the community."
"Is it Mr. Williams communications with you that He wishes that people do not do drugs or alcohol, and be a danger to the community?"
"Yes sir, He has expressed that to me, and he has also expressed that to many others."
"Sir, has Mr. Williams' tutoring and guidance to you taken you out of poverty, and your family?"
"Yes sir, it has."
[60 Minutes]
Jack Mallers:
"...Yeah. So we had gone to El Salvador just to prove that our product worked. And prove We could be better at Western Union than Western Union."
Sharyn Alfonsi:
"Jack Mallers is a 28-Year-Old CEO from Chicago who developed an App called 'Strike'. Designed to disrupt one of the biggest businesses in El Salvador, Remittances. Money sent from overseas. Last year Salvadorans received more than $7B through services like Western Union, which can charge upwards of 10% on transfers, that can take days. Using Bitcoin's digital infrastructure, the Strike app allows users to send USD across borders instantly, for pennies."
Jack Mallers:
"We launch it: it gets 1 download a day. Then it gets 100 downloads a day. Then it gets 1,000 downloads in a day. Then it gets 20,000 downloads in a day."
Sharyn Alfonsi:
"Then, Mallers gets an unexpected message on his phone
'Well, You get a direct message on Twitter, from who?"'
Jack Mallers:
'The Brother of the president"
Sharyn Alfonsi:
"And He wants to meet with you?"
Jack Mallers:
"And He gave me 24 hours..."
Sharyn Alfonsi:
"El Salvador's populist President Nayib Bukele once referred to himself as the world's coolest dictator."
Jack Mallers
"It was scary, it was really scary
I thought the likely two outcomes
Is that they were not happy with me interfering with the financial system in El Salvador
Or they were tremendously happy and bought into the vision that this was representative of a better World for not only El Salvador, but for the whole planet."
Sharyn Alfonsi:
"His utopian blueprint for Bitcoin led to months of conversations with the government that led to this;
Last summer at a Bitcoin conference in Miami, Bukele announced in a video message that El Salvador would become the first country in the World to adopt Bitcoin as an official currency alongside the US Dollar..."
