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

Like some five guys in a garage are going to take unlimited liability.

It's going to kill it.

It's going to kill the whole, it's going to kill open source.

So if you take a stock and you tokenize it, that's a security, and it's regulated by the SEC like a security is.

It's very black and white and clear.

The only thing that is different with respect to blockchain regulation is that...

It delineates in certain situations that blockchains like a token like Bitcoin or Ethereum, in the clarity bill, it delineates in some cases it'll be regulated by the SEC.

In other cases, it'll be regulated by the CFTC.

In all cases, they have a federal regulator.

And now this, by the way, this is even the sort of the last administration that was opposed to cryptocurrency.

implicitly agreed with this framework.

Let me just walk you through it.

Bitcoin, when it started, was presumably one or some set of people, whoever Satoshi was.

By definition, when something starts, it's centralized.

There's a person behind it.

They have inside information and control.

The way the Clarity Act works, at that point, that token is regulated by the SEC.

So someone creates a new blockchain, you know, they have control over it.

And, you know, they have rules like if they, you know, they have lockups, for example.

They have disclosure rules.

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