Chris Dixon

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The a16z Show · Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon: What’s at Stake in Crypto Regulation · 1 Aug 2026 podcast

The most innovative fintech companies like Stripe have gone in a big way.

So you don't have to listen to me.

Just look at the news.

I mean, at the beginning, we were talking about the early Bitcoin days.

We're very far away from that now.

These are very big organizations, and the technology is on the verge of going very mainstream with the right regulation.

And just to add to that, it's important not to conflate, like, in some of these, like, court cases, I think there's been some conflation of if you go, if you're, to use Mark's analogy, if you make, build a car and then you actually, like, knowingly help a criminal do it, like, then you are in trouble, okay?

And no one's debating that, okay?

And so if you build a piece of software and you're like, hey, criminals, come use it, and they send you an email and you're like, how do I do a crime?

And you're like, here's how you do a crime.

There have been cases like that in the software world.

That is a crime and no one's debating that.

What we're talking about here is you're making open-source software, whether it's AI or crypto, and you're making it for a constructive use case.

You're making a car, you're making a hammer, whatever.

You're making an AI model, you're making a blockchain.

And, you know, and then you, for example, make it open source.

If you had unlimited downstream liability or criminal liability or civil liability or any kind, it's, as Mark said, you just, you simply, like, how could you ever make the, how could you ever decide to do that as an open source developer with that kind of risk?

You couldn't.

They almost, I think, and Mark, you know better, but in the AI world, I think there have been a few bills, including California, that almost passed that would have imposed that kind of basically unlimited downstream liability on AI models, which, you know,

I mean, these people aren't big companies that can afford defending themselves.

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