Oh, my God! Amazon's going to have Bitcoin payment soon!
Alright. Now, it's the Amazon news, guys, we're teasing.
We got jacked Bezos on the thumb.
You have any Jeff Bezos thoughts or opinions, Tim?
Oh, man.
Good song.
Okay. Alright. Well, I will say this about Jeff.
Jeff and Mark, you know, they're kind of like two titans of the industry.
We used to make fun of Mark Zuckerberg,
and, you know, we kind of herald Jeff Bezos as this, like, Chad.
You know, he got jacked.
You know, he's shaving his head.
And he's like walking around in a vest and his arms are like-- waaah!
He looks like Tim after a chest session.
But then you look at him and he's like, ugh, I don't know, man.
I feel like Mark Zuckerberg is really the Chad now.
He's like the one doing the fitness competitions.
He's like doing jiu-jitsu.
His, like, children know, like, 18 languages.
- He's just chillin with his wife, - Who--
having a good time on vacation. Mark.
- Who you taking? Zuckerberg or Elon? - Oh, Mark Zuckerberg would wipe the floor with Elon Musk.
He is a--
- Listen. - that fitness challenge he did put some--
Mark Zuckerberg is literally much better shape than 99.7% of everybody,
if not 99.97.
He is in freak physical form.
Plus he does jiu-jitsu training.
And he's younger.
He would mop the floor with Elon.
That being said, I love Elon Musk.
- I would want Elon to win. - Well, here's what you're not taking into account.
Elon Musk is real life Tony Stark.
And he is Iron Man.
And he's got some stuff obviously.
Who knows if he's half bionic at this point?
Yeah, but here's where you're getting something wrong.
Mark Zuckerberg is the Lawnmower Man.
He's Mr. Metaverse.
- How do you know he hasn't downloaded kung fu? - The Lawnmower Man?
And he can't even figure out Meta at this point.
- I don't think he's downloading things in his body. - Hmmm. I don't know. I don't know.
But yeah, no, Mark would wipe the floor with him.
I mean, you don't practice jiu-jitsu that heavily and that intensely
- and be in that peak physical form. - I--
He could run--
- he could run a marathon, you know? - Here we go.
- We're going to-- - Can Elon Musk run a half mile without walking?
- Listen. He's Iron Man. - 'Cause Mark Zuckerberg will probably break 10 miles out like no sweat.
He's Iron Man.
All I saw was one word on this headline,
and then we went on a 3-minute tangent there.
Amazon collaborating in pilot program for new CBDC
proposed by the IMF and central banks.
Guys, the IMF, the central banks, they do these things with BlackRock.
They do these things with Fidelity.
They do plans and testing with large corporations.
Well, looks like Amazon just got invited to the party here.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore has published a whitepaper
that proposes conditions for the use of central bank digital currencies,
tokenized bank deposits and stablecoins.
Guys, Singapore is a large economy.
Fairly certain, you know,
pretty entrenched in the top 10 there.
It was in collaboration with the IMF, an Italian bank and the Bank of Korea,
South Korea, of course,
and is currently paired with a pilot program
that Amazon and several other corporate giants are participating in.
According to Singapore Monetary Authority,
the whitepaper's release was supported by prototypes
that aim to demonstrate a concept called Purpose Bound Money,
which allows senders to specify conditions, such as validity period and types of shops,
when making transfers in digital money across different systems.
They say that Amazon, digital finance company FAZZ,
and food delivery and digital payments Grab are participating in the pilot case
involving arrangements for online retail payments.
Also got a banking giant in there.
In the whitepaper,
researchers say that a new future digital asset ecosystem could mainly comprise of CBDCs,
tokenized bank liabilities and stablecoins.
So this is the APAC, right?
Isn't that the consortium of Asian countries?
So this is huge.
This isn't--
I have to look at the total APAC GDP compared to America.
But this is significant.
This will happen.
Before we see some in America,
we would see it happen in a country with friendly regulatory compliance.
How about this?
Actual rules on, you know.
They actually have a speed limit on the highway.
So before they start test driving their car,
"Well, this speed limit, you know, says 55,
and I look at that road and it's curvy and there's no speed limit,
and sometimes after a curve, it's a cliff.
So I'm going to test drive here before we could test drive in America."
This is a test drive for Amazon adding crypto payments
in a very large ecosystem.
We're not talking about just El Salvador for people buying, you know, their groceries.
No, this is a serious rollout.
This makes me pretty bullish.