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226 Certainly not actively. And, if I would have used it, then I wouldn't have recalled using it. It's—seems like a risky endeavor, like—and I'm scared to screw it up. And so, you know, sometimes—you know, it's like something I want to sit down and take 6 hours to make sure I bulletproof now, but—but yeah.

Well, I guess let me ask: To the extent that any of the funds were raised when you were using these links for crypto, where did that go, or who was administering that for you?

I administer my personal crypto. I don't know that Stop the Steal, or January 6th, or anything like that raised crypto. I know that—again, after I'm deplatformed and you read that message that, you know, I guess is from me, that's not Stop the Steal-related. I'm not raising money for election integrity or politics, I was raising money for my safety, relocation, et cetera, et cetera.

So, after the events on January 6th, are you raising money for Stop the Steal, LLC?

After January 6th? I believe that we tried to or attempted to, but we've run into problems with SMS sending or email sending, and I'm not sure. I don't want to speak out of turn. We could have gone through multiple credit card processors. I'm not sure. And so, you know, it—it's all kind of like a blurry line. Yeah, it's all kind of—it's all kind of blurry.

When you were deplatformed from the payment processors, what made you turn to cryptocurrency?

Well, I—like I said, personally, I, you know, have been a big fan of crypto for—for years, and—and so, you know, if you can't—if you can't process in, you know, cash or credit card or whatever, then all you have is, you know, crypto.

And there are a lot of people around the country who were concerned about my