Chris Dixon
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first heard Feb 2025
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The a16z Show · Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon: What’s at Stake in Crypto Regulation · 1 Aug 2026
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You guys invented SSL, right?
Yeah, that's right.
Very good.
And so, you know, for the kids, don't know this, that HTTPS, that was Netscape.
That was an invention.
And at the time, it was like, well, who would need that?
Why would you need to send secret stuff?
And at the time, probably some bad guys did use it, maybe.
But of course, over time, we all realized that was an important and 99.9% of it is like good behavior, right?
It's people interacting with their bank or something, right?
You guys had to go.
You got to go in front of Congress.
And didn't you have some...
It was a four-year fight.
mean i would say first of all like like it's not my area of expertise but like i'll say as a citizen i think there should be ethics rules for government officials i don't think those should be exclusive to crypto i think there should be ethics rules around trading stocks and other crypto for sure other financial assets that seems reasonable to me um number one um number two um
The Clarity Act, even without specific ethics provisions, will add significant restrictions to anyone in crypto, including requirements for disclosures around the risks and holdings of a crypto asset.
It will add lockup requirements.
So it's only an increase in the restrictions that would be applied to anybody, including government officials is point number two.
And then point number three, I think what's been frustrating from a political point of view is that
the specific ethics kind of provision around crypto has been coupled with
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