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BREAKING: The EU JUST SILENTLY Got Confirmation To FREEZE Your Money?!
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Original: https://www.youtube.com/live/InP8kN99JOk
So, while everybody was distracted with their Christmas travels, the European Central Bank just confirmed that they are coming after your money. When I saw this announcement this morning, I kind of didn’t believe what I was seeing or what I was reading.
And I think many of you probably won’t believe realize what we’re about to be talking about and what the European Central Bank just talked about earlier today.
So I will remind you before we reveal what they just announced. There is one central bank around the world who’s launched a central bank digital currency. It’s China.
We all know that as we can see it has expiration dates. And I’ll also remind you of what Christine Lagard, the head of the European Central Bank, who is very very very excited to launch a
central bank digital currency.
I’ll remind you what she said about China’s CBDC. Let’s tune into this one and see where it has been piloted. And thereis only one which is clearly now launched in in a in a very small country but
it is piloted on a fairly large scale in in China is of use and of service to all citizens.
So it is not something that uh is uh good for the elite or is good for the young or is good for some versus others. If it is well done and if it is uh well implemented it would be of service to all citizens.
So that is Christine Lagard head of the ECB openly praising China’s CBDC. Now, that might, I hope, make a little bit more sense or maybe explain why they are absolutely froing at the Oh,
I can’t say that.
Why the ECB is so intent on rolling out a CBDC with what they’re calling today holding limits. This is the brand new news. This is the brand new announcement. And again, this is being
snuck through on the morning of the 23rd of December.
Do not forget that the ECB also snuck something through last year on December 24th when everybody was concerned with the Christmas traveling season.
The ECB quietly published this blog post where they announced more quantitative easing, more money printing. Now, we all know money printing steals the money of the citizens, but we’re not
talking about that today.
We are talking about their new plan to copy what the UK is doing. Let’s not forget, I’ll remind you, we know that China has CBDC’s with expiration dates.
And some people are looking at Europe and they’re saying, “Oh, hang on. Where is Europe getting these ideas about holding limits and savings limits?”
I remind you the UK also does have something very similar. We can see the UK, they’ve been openly talking and debating about this idea for years that the digital pound should have a 20,000
limit. We’re going to come back to the UK in a little bit more time.
I want to cover what happens today. So, this got rolled out here. We can see the date of this article. This is the 23rd of December. The ECB has now officially gained the backing from the council
for caps on digital euro holdings. Now, what does this mean? I highlighted the important parts on this article, but we can see the council compromises government ministers from 27 nations in the
block.
This is the EU block. So, this isn’t just one bureaucrat at the head of the European Central Bank froing at the idea of being able to copy what China is doing. No, no, no. This is ministers in all 27 European
countries all signing on. They are part of the council and agreeing that yeah, holding limits, saving limits, more ideas, regulations and rules that allow our bureaucrats and unelected bureaucrats, mind you, at the central banks, giving them more powers to control how much money you are allowed to save.
Great idea. Where’s Where’s the line where I could sign away my country’s rights? That’s the insane part about what the ECB has quietly, again, quietly announced today while everybody’s too busy traveling to their Christmas parties.
There’s a Let’s just break down this law before I really strap the tinfoil hat on. What is this? How’s it being marketed? So we can see the holding limits are not just about abstract financial stability.
So they’re kind of saying the quiet parts out loud because our central bankers have been saying that these are just helpful for the banks.
That’s the only reason we want these savings limits. We don’t want bank runs. We can see they said these stable uh coin holding limits, they’re about preventing the digital euro from competing directly
with bank deposits.
If people could hold unlimited digital euros, deposits could shift instantly from commercial banks to the ECB, especially during periods of stress, effectively accelerating bank runs.
So I always tell you they’re they’re very very very very very careful with how they roll out these Orwellian rules.
Again, what was it in 2020? What began the 2-year lockdown where I wasn’t allowed to go more than 5 kilometers from my home without showing a card, a medical status card?
Oh, it’s just 14 days to flatten the curve. That’s how it starts again.
If if central bankers and governments come out and say, “Look, 2-year lockdowns and mandatory this and that,” do you really think people would believe them?
They think, “Boy, that’s a little bit of a jump from here to there in 10 days.” No, I’m not. I’m suspicious.
No, it’s the slippery slope of tyranny. This is how every communist hellhole collapse begins. It’s giving away your rights step by step.
How did it start in the UK? Oh, look around. There’s this problem of just illegal workers. That’s how they started it. Oh, look at all these new people that have come in.
They’re working illegally. Maybe we float the idea of a digital ID, but it’s just for the illegal workers so that the mom and pops and your kids have a fair chance to get a job. This is how it was.
The digital ID was slowly introduced in the UK. That didn’t work. Everybody saw straight through that So then they just rolled out the old uh what do they call it? The old stick.
All of these laws, it’s the carrot or the stick. If they dangle the carrot and the horse doesn’t eat the carrot, out comes the stick. And whack does the government go. It’s what they all do.
And then they just said, “Yeah, you know what? It was never about fair work. If you don’t sign up with the digital ID, you’re not going to be able to work. It’s mandatory.
And I think we’re going to see the same thing here with these holding limits in the EU. If you give up your freedom and if you let them set the precedent, they will take everything.
What’s the quote? You give a tyrant an inch, they’re going to take a mile, baby. And that is what is going to happen to my poor old European friends. What happened in Australia recently?
Again, we’ll come back to this new law in a moment, but again, we have to be aware of how governments roll out shockingly stupid ideas.
They never announced the shockingly stupid idea at face value. It’s inch by inch. In Australia last week, December 10th, they roll out a mandatory social media identification requirement for everybody under the age of 16. Essentially, it’s a digital ID for the whole country.
There’s kickback, there’s massive push back. Everybody is up in arms about it, protesting, signing petitions, this, that, and all of the other stuff.
The government all of a sudden has a lot of explaining to do. The people band together and they say, “We don’t want a digital ID. This is ridiculous.”
What happened 4 days after December 10th? A mass shooting on Bondi Beach.
4 days after the digital ID was rolled out in Australia. Kawinky dink. And now of course that event, that problem and the reaction to that problem just gave the Australian government
all of the all of the explanation that it might have needed to roll out its pre-planned and preackaged solution.
And what’s that? Hate speech laws. essentially more rules, more regulations, more ability for the government to throw you in prison for criticizing it in a democratic country.
All right, I’m going to I could really get worked up here talking about Australia. Uh, I’m not going to do that. What we’re going to do is we’re going to break down what is going on in Europe.
Again, with this framing, with this knowledge of how governments typically like to tiptoe their way to tyranny, keep all of that in the back of your mind because when they say this is just for financial
stability, just question that.
So, this is what Europe’s saying. The ECB’s concern goes beyond vague financial stability. In the euro system, most money is created by commercial banks through lending.
If digital euros could be freely held as a store of value, largecale migration from bank deposits into self-custodied ECB money would shrink banks deposit bases.
Do you believe that? I don’t. I’m sorry, but I absolutely do not believe that. Mcloven, he nails it in the chat. Temporary mandates often become permanent. Let’s not forget what happened in 1971.
Richard Nixon, president of the US, said, “Oh, temporarily, we are going to ban the conversion of US dollars into gold.” Sorry, France. Send your battleship home. We’re not filling it up with the gold.
Take those paper promises with you back to Europe. But this is just temporary. What is it, 55 years later, the US dollar is no longer backed by gold.
Wait on. It’s 2020. It’ll be It’ll be officially 55 years later in 9 days time. 2025 is nearly over. That’s wild. That’s actually crazy.
That reminds me before we go back to the the European stuff. I spent probably about 50 hours writing an email, not only summarizing the most important things of 2025, but looking ahead at some
predictions for 2026.
I’m going to be releasing this in the next couple days. So, if you’re not subscribed to my email, make sure you do subscribe to that down below. There will be a link down below in about a minute.
Uh, so again, make sure you’re notified for that. It’s crazy. 2026 is already kind of here, but here we are. All right, we’re doing it live, baby. So, that link to that email is in the description.
So, again, it’s free. Make sure you sign up. Uh, I very rarely write I only do when I when I think some interesting things are happening. So again, link to that free email is down below right now.
I just updated it. So let’s have a look at what else everybody’s talking about the chat before we break down a little bit more details about what is going on in the UK and the EU.
I actually think freedom ended quite a bit earlier than December 23rd, 2025 in Europe. uh much earlier.
And again, I let’s look at things with broader context. We’ve got Europe talking about digital IDs. We’ve got the Bank of England here talking about digital IDs and 20,000 saving caps.
We’ve got Christine Lagard openly praising China’s CBDC, which by the way has an expiration date. We’ve got the Bank of England, again, the guys who kind of pioneered the idea of a savings cap.
Let’s not forget they wrote this white paper some time ago, literally giving you the framework of how they’re going to execute a bailing. That’s Orwellian speak for steal your money.
And I just think everything we’re seeing here, there’s a reason why they’re quietly publishing this announcement on December 23rd when everybody is too busy to be paying attention.
And by the way, let’s let’s also just remind ourselves which countries in Europe are rolling out digital IDs because I I do think these are going to be rolled out in lock step of each other.
where you see a digital ID, you’re probably going to see a CBDC.
If you look at which countries have digital IDs ah you can see a whole lot of blue in China, Europe, and Canada. Don’t you think that’s interesting?
By the way, look at how Orwellian that that UK digital ID is.
Trying to find the exact map that shows us which countries have digital IDs. Ah, this is what we’re looking for.
I lost it, but I think I might have found it. Pretty much all of Europe has now flipped to the side of accepting CBDC’s and digital IDs. It’s kind of crazy. It’s kind of Orwellian.
But like we said, the council, as they call it here, the council of the European Union supports the European Central Bank’s plan for a digital euro.
And why are they so obsessed with this term limits, holding limits?
Again, the devil is always in the detail here. There’s a very clear reason why they want holding limits. And again, I’ll remind you if you’re in any of these European countries, be very careful because
we can see the council compromises government ministers from the 27 nations in the block. That’s pretty much all of the countries in Europe. They all accept it. They all agree to it.
They’re all openly saying, “We don’t care about your money. We think holding limits are a great idea. We think CBDC’s are a great idea. We think Christine Lagard
is a trustworthy individual.” I’ll remind you, she’s a convicted criminal.
She got charged with doing dodgy things when she was the head of the IMF. You really think she’s going to let you control your money? Of course not. I’ve got some more videos to show you in
a moment talking about Christine Lagard.
While we’re talking about controlling your money, I would be remiss if I didn’t remind you. If you do not cliffhanger, hold one of these. That’s your Bitcoin in your own self-custody.
You do not control your money. Simple as that. That’s why I always remind you if you want to fight back against these bureaucrats, simplest thing you can do, self-custody your own money.
Apologies about that, guys. Uh before I got booted, I think we were covering uh the specifics of what this new law means. This is the savings cap law.
So, let’s break it down in a little bit more detail. So, we were saying before I got booted, they’re telling us it’s about the banks. I don’t think it is. We can see I want to read this part here.
The message is clear. where the digital euro is being designed as a payments rail, not a balance sheet, and the ceilings are not there to make sure it never becomes one.
Again, my big takeaway here, guys, is I don’t believe that. I don’t think they’re going to let you have control over your money.
I think it’s as simple as that.
I think holding’s limits is a Trojan horse and I think it’s going to be used to eventually be converted into something that has expiration rates, meaning you’re not allowed to
you’re absolutely just simply not allowed to have any control over your money.
Something else that makes me a little bit suspicious of the timing of this announcement is this article I want to show you.
This is nuts. Look at this. This was a day ago. So, this was yesterday, December 22nd. I saw this. Households are open quote unquote to digital euro regardless of holding limit.
That’s what the ECB said. What? Customers would only allocate €500 into digital euro study fines.
Now, what’s this fine print? Customers would only allocate €500 out of a €10,000 gift into the digital euro. A study fines. So, wait, are they trying to bribe people? Let’s have a look. Ah, to continue reading, you need to give us your ID. What a surprise.
We can see here, results published in the ECB research bulletin on December 22 show that 45% of respondents would use the digital euro. What?
Really? We know that’s complete because we’ve seen lots of other countries and their use of their CBDC.
In Nigeria, 0.35% of the population uses the eRA. This is even in a country that kicked out all of the Bitcoin exchanges.
They froze the bank accounts. They said you’re only allowed to get a $100 out per month in Nigeria. And they said the only thing you can use is the EIR.
0.35% of Nigerians have downloaded the stupid wallet to use the ENRA. So, do you really think you believe this research study coming out of the experts
and the fact checkers here in the ECB where they say that 45% a respondents would use the digital euro. I call I think they’re lying.
Think they’re pissing on your back and telling you it’s raining.
All right, so let me let me calm down a little bit.
I just don’t believe them. Dooo in the chat, you’re not going to be able to hold more than €3,000 on the digital euro wallet. It’s supposed to be an Apple Pay thing. That is true.
We’ve made a video on that. I don’t want to rehash that whole video. That’s absolutely true though.
One minute. Apologies for the cough if you caught that. I’m smelling That’s why I’m coughing.
This is again, this is just another step. I want to answer the comments more in a moment here because you guys are getting fired up too. But again, I got booted off when I was telling you guys about
the solution.
It’s becoming crystal clear. If you don’t have Bitcoin in a hardware wallet, you’re not going to be able to hold any money.
Again, while you’re getting your Bitcoin in custody, I always also remind you if you want to be super safe and set up something like a multi- signature Bitcoin wallet or a time locked Bitcoin
wallet, I always encourage you guys to check out what BitVault is creating.
They’ve created what I think is one of the most underrated and underappreciated use cases for Bitcoin.
They let you easily time lock your Bitcoin and create these time delayed vaults easily. Again, I’ve set these up myself over the years and it probably took me about a week to just learn about and
figure out how to use multi- signature wallets.
I set up my own one over Electrum. It was a custom DIY multi-IG wallet. I did this back in like 2020. And like I said, took me a week to really wrap my head around it, understand it, and feel comfortable
in what I was creating was a multi-IG wallet before I put funds into it. I love BitVault because you can set up a multi-IG wallet in minutes. Again, that’s why I think they’re a great product.
You can get yearly access for $129. And again, they’re in pre-sale, so a lot of these offers are changing as the app is filling up right now.
This offer expires on the 31st of December.
So, I think it’s a bargain. I think it’s a no-brainer, especially considering just how wild things are getting in the traditional system. Again, I one of the
things I’m most shocked about in 2025 is how quickly the authoritarian push is accelerating.
Let me give you a little bit of a sneak peek in what I’m writing about in this email, which is a little bit of a long one, but I think it’s a very timely one because I think a lot of people who,
let’s say, were surprised or lost money in 2025, they’re probably going to lose money and be surprised in 2026 if you’re not following the trends and learning from what you could have learned from
in 2025.
So for me the one of the biggest lessons I had when you kind of step back and you look at 2025 is watching the push the authoritarian push it was nuts.
Australia, Canada, all of Europe, the UK all rolling out digital IDs. Vietnam freezing 86 million bank accounts. Savings caps being talked about in the UK and Europe. You’ve got jury trials being ended
in the UK. What is it? 15,000 people arrested a year in the UK for social media posts.
Even if you’re retweeting posts, you don’t write a word, you’re going to jail. Like the acceleration of that trend, it was nuts.
In Germany, a company goes bankrupt every 20 minutes. That’s nuts.
Thank you, Incognito. I’m going to look into that after this stream. But again, this is one of the most craziest things.
France is looking to become the third country with citizenship based taxation. Oh, this is a cracker. The UK and Australia are pushing forward spare bedroom taxes.
Like this is one of the biggest things I think caught a lot of people off guard or I think people just aren’t looking at because they see the world through rosecoled glasses.
And here’s the nuts things. I was telling this to the wife earlier today. We have people who created a wallet, a Bitcoin wallet in jail.
Again, I can’t believe the founders of Samurai Wallet in jail for creating code, writing code, and by the way, prosecuted in America, the country that’s supposed to be for free speech.
It’s nuts. The federal prison. That’s correct. So again, stand with samurai, talk about it.
Hopefully they get a pardon or they get freed because 5 years in jail for writing code creating technology is nuts.
Again, who created the machete? Just because it’s being used for evil doesn’t mean the creator should go to jail. It’s wild when you really think about it.
Mcloven, the digital prison is not parabolic. That’s is that and by the way that is what is being created the digital prison cold storage self custody is crucial.
That’s a great point by the way and this is this is why I continue to talk about hardware wallets on this channel. It’s the first step of Bitcoin. put your Bitcoin in self- custody.
nd again, once you’ve done that, go and back it up correctly. This is why I always talk about what stamp seed has created.
I know for a fact there’s probably hundreds of millions of people with their Bitcoin 12 or 24 words on something like this.
This is paper. I know there’s a ton of you guys who have got hardware wallets on the channel. And don’t get me wrong, that’s amazing. But if you’ve got your hardware wallet backed up on this 12 or 24
words, you should be doing exactly this.
You should rip it up. Paper is not lifep proof. You should not be putting your generational wealth on something as flimsy as paper. This is again why I’ve been partnered up with Stamp Seed for like
2 years because they create titanium plates.
That is the only place you should be putting your Bitcoin. As you can see, super easy to stamp your 12 or 24 words into the titanium plates from Stamp Seed. Again, there’s a reason why I love the plates.
They’re compact. They’re simple. Nothing can go wrong with it. You don’t have 28 moving pieces that you have to hope stay together in a house fire or if it gets dropped.
It’s a simple plate. Again, stamp set will give you 15% off anything you want to buy with promo code Luke 15. So, take advantage of that because the digital prison is absolutely coming and Bitcoin
and self custody is your only escape.
behave. I I I won’t say that. I don’t want to get I don’t want to get this stream absolutely nuked. It’s already been nuked. Apologies about that uh interruption there when I had a flat
laptop.
Hit me up on Twitter, Rob. I’m just going to go through all your comments now, guys. Message me on Twitter or Instagram.
And this is also true, by the way. Thank you, Johnny, for reminding me. The EU has talked about seizing stagnant savings. That another term they used was unused savings.
I think the SEC commissioner Ursula Vanderlayan in March said we need to mobilize private capital. Again, they use a lot of these Orwellian words like stagnant savings, unused savings, or mobilized
private capital.
They do this to distract. Really, what they’re doing is freezing your money. That’s why I choose those words for the thumbnails of these videos. They want to freeze your money.
This isn’t about mobilizing private capital. No, they’re distracting you with fruit salad language.
It’s why I’ve made a ton of videos on this topic this year. They’re quietly advancing this agenda and people are just asleep. People are just distracted.
I get it. The world’s crazy. There’s a million problems in the world, and the mainstream media’s job is to make all of those problems your problem.
That’s how it’s designed. No, YouTube didn’t kick Luke. YouTube’s very friendly to Luke. My channel got reinstated very quickly.
YouTube lets me say not crazy. YouTube. YouTube lets me talk to all of you guys. Uh, again, the beautiful thing of the internet. So, YouTube didn’t kick me.
Probably more likely the EU blocked me. No, my laptop just went flat.
Thank you for the birthday wishes, by the way. I think the wife exposed There she is. She did expose me. I’m old. I’m 29 today. It is my birthday. So, thank you for the birthday wishes.
Appreciate that. I just feel old and sick. Apologies for the coughing and the sneeze in this live stream. I wanted to get this out before Christmas because again I I think yeah I
I am officially an old man.
So thank you guys. I appreciate that. Um, yeah. I just wanted to quickly get this stream out because again, these guys, they have a history of hiding these announcements
when everybody’s distracted with holiday season. And again, I wasn’t going to go live today. I You guys can probably hear I’m as crooked as a dog. I’m very sick.
I have very little voice. I have a fever. I’m sweating. Uh but again, they always do this. It’s always Christmas when people are distracted. Last year on December 24th, they came out and said they’re going
to start printing money. Scoundrels.
This is the ECB blog post.
December 24th, 2024. This year on December 23rd, 2025, they want to take your money. And they kind of admitted the thing that I hoped would never happen.
All 27 countries in the EU are on board of it.
It’s nuts. It’s nuts. The money printer is about to go and they’re about to take all of your money. I think it’s as simple as that. That’s what we’re going to see.
That’s why I’m so passionately a Bitcoin advocate. Oh, I hope you’re not fully KYCed, Rob. Incognito. I am fully KYC, by the way. I’m bagged and tagged, baby. I’m a good boy.
Government knows exactly how much Bitcoin I have. Incognito makes a good comment here. Two different stacks, KYC and nonKYC. This is a great idea. Sure. buying Bitcoin from an exchange.
It’s easy. I get it. Just make sure it’s not 100% of your stack so your government knows exactly how much money you have.
A non KYC stack is a great thing. Actually, that reminded me. So, by the way, non KYC KYC stands for know your customer. If you buy from an exchange, the exchange gives all of your customer details
to your friendly tax authorities in your country, the government.
Again, I think a great way to get nonkyc or private Bitcoin, by the way, that’s completely legal. Nothing wrong with that, is to mine it. It’s why I always harp on about the importance of learning about
mining Bitcoin. It’s why I always encourage you guys to book a book a call with Blockware.
Blockware, let’s just they make mining easy.
They have six sites where they’ve done all of the hard work. They’ve plugged in the miners. They’ve found the cheap electricity. And if you want to use a hosted mining service where they just plug in a
Bitcoin mining rig for you and you just want to get paid out in Bitcoin, that’s hosted mining.
So, I encourage you to learn more about it. I just think it’s a no-brainer. uh especially hosted mining, just being able to mine Bitcoin. It’s sovereignty. So again, book a call with Blockware if
you do want to take advantage of that.
Book a call with them to find out the specifics, Mcloven, regarding non KYC. But with most mining setups, you just give them an address. They pay you out in Bitcoin because again,
I think there’s differences between hosted mining setups and buying the mining rigs yourself. And again, Blockware lets you do both.
So you can buy the mining rigs directly from them and just plug in the miners yourself if you want to take the take the sovereignty in your into your own hands so to say.
Just making sure I answer all your questions.
A lot of very valuable information in the live chat. I love to see that.
Calm, satisfying. How to escape all of this. Keep it simple. Buy Bitcoin or mine Bitcoin. Put it into a hardware wallet. Back up the hardware wallet with Titanium and never sell your Bitcoin.
The four steps of Bitcoin.
It’s simple. It’s easy. You never have to use a CBDC slave token. I think it’s pretty simple. I think with all that said, guys, I might end this live stream here.
What I will say is thank you to all of the kind wishes in the chat. I appreciate it. I’m an old man. Again, thank you to everyone who subscribed to the channel this year.
2025’s been wild. I got crazy things planned for 2026, so stay tuned to that. Make sure you subscribed if you do want to be notified when my next videos drop.
So, with all that said, I will leave all of you guys there and I will see you all in?