Ben Horowitz

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3,643 appearances 14 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2024 last heard 15 Jan

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The Ben & Marc Show · How An AI Bot Became a Crypto Millionaire · 22 Oct 2024 podcast

There's some number of them that are printed, but it has no kind of other purpose than the beam itself. podcast-host

And the advantage of that in the kind of current regulatory environment is interesting because if you have a coin that does something that's, you know, has a utility, has a purpose, and it could be, you know, that there's kind of distributed physical infrastructure coins for podcast-host

You know, getting credit for energy that you provide on the grid and that kind of thing. podcast-host

But all of those under the Gensler regime are essentially illegal. podcast-host

Because or podcast-host

They're legal, but you'll get sued by the SEC by the US government. podcast-host

And the reason that you'll get sued is they claim that anything with utility is has asymmetric information attached to it, meaning the provider. podcast-host

of the coin knows something that the kind of consumers don't know and podcast-host

You know, we think it's a very bad argument because these things get decentralized and there isn't asymmetric information. podcast-host

But for sure with a meme coin. podcast-host

Because there's no information. podcast-host

There's no asymmetric information. podcast-host

It's just a coin and a name and you know, it could be a Trump coin or a podcast-host

Or a goatsey coin or whatever coin. podcast-host

And so for that set of things, which are, you know, by the way, great for scammers, because you know, you can say, Oh, this meme coin's gonna be worth whatever, none of those get sued by the SEC. podcast-host

And so one of the things Congress put in the market structure bill is saying, Hey. podcast-host

You know, maybe there should be a holding period for these coins so that people don't scam people. podcast-host

But of course, the SEC has been against that because they're not really for protecting consumers. podcast-host

They're, you know, just for wrecking the industry. podcast-host

And, you know, that's one of the reasons we've had this big political fight with them and so forth. podcast-host

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