Brian Armstrong
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And yeah, it's a big opportunity.
Well, we're meeting with world leaders to talk about economic freedom and how crypto can help update their financial system.
We're meeting with central bank governors to talk about what they should do with stablecoins.
But probably the most interesting one group that I'm meeting with here are other bank CEOs, because we are having this moment in DC about getting market structure legislation passed.
And the bill has made good progress.
It got a strong bipartisan vote in the House.
It's now being deliberated in the Senate.
And there was a little bit of a blow up last week.
For that current draft?
Well, there was too many giveaways to TradFi, if I can say that.
Our view is that there should be a level playing field for this is allowed, this is not allowed, and then all the US companies compete.
And banks didn't like that.
They were, in my view, like the commercial sides of these banks are very smart, and the CEOs get it, and they're talking to us about integrating crypto.
The bank lobbying groups and bank associations are out there trying to ban their competition.
And I have zero tolerance for that.
I think it's un-American.
It harms consumers.