Andrew Parish

But point being is that we've come a long way from that point.

So let's give some lip service to that.

The side that crypto wanted to align itself with won the election.

So the floodgates were opened and there's been a huge amount of progress from, you know, Uniswap is under, you know, has legal issues and they're spending, you know, $50 million at a time to, you know, deal with the SEC and whoever else.

um to just exist right to just continue to do business and uh not go under um so to go from there to where we are now to where the genius act has actually happened and now we're in fighting you know politically about the clarity act and things like yield and tokenization and the sec

Still in a good spot, right?

I mean, we still have made huge progress politically.

At the same time, though, it's not lost on me that a sizable portion of people that have been in this industry as long as you and I have take a look at politics and say, hey, this is why Bitcoin exists so we don't have to fool with any of this garbage.

So, you know, that's a reality as well, right?

It falls underneath the phrase that was so popular for so long, you know, Bitcoin fixes this, right?

There still remains a sovereignty, meaningful part of the conversation associated with Bitcoin and crypto.

It also speaks, so that movement also speaks to the counter-movement

which has to do with America at large.

Like, you can vote with your feet, right?

So there's been an enormous amount of capital that during the six months of this conversation, the possibility of this happening, there has been capital flight out of California that has meaningfully increased in the past six months

versus significant flight out of california you know kind of in the midst of and post covet right so uh you know america continues to be a space where um you know if you find yourself on the edges of let's call it even financial tyranny you have the ability to vote with your feet and move and go somewhere else now

a conversation can be had about, does that movement get bigger?

Does it find itself at the federal and national level?

And so candidates for 2028 would decide that this is part of the case that they're going to make to the United States.

And so asset seizure, quote unquote, finds itself into tax ideas for 2028.