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James Seifert

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Bloomberg Tech
AI, Crypto Anxiety Creates Volatile Week for Markets

There's a blogger who everyone kind of respects in the space that has moved up his timelines

Bloomberg Tech
AI, Crypto Anxiety Creates Volatile Week for Markets

And a lot of people like to say it's FUD, it's not real concern, but people are starting to take this seriously, including the leader and founder of Ethereum, Vitalik.

Bloomberg Tech
AI, Crypto Anxiety Creates Volatile Week for Markets

So I think there's a whole bunch of things here that are compounding.

Bloomberg Tech
AI, Crypto Anxiety Creates Volatile Week for Markets

Obviously, you just spoke about it.

Bloomberg Tech
AI, Crypto Anxiety Creates Volatile Week for Markets

There's a bunch of risk off in AI names and just equity risk assets in general.

Bloomberg Tech
AI, Crypto Anxiety Creates Volatile Week for Markets

And then I think also maybe this might be, we often see a bit of selling around this time of year, maybe into December, particularly DTS for tax loss harvesting.

Bloomberg Tech
AI, Crypto Anxiety Creates Volatile Week for Markets

Maybe that's being pulled forward a little bit.

Bloomberg Tech
AI, Crypto Anxiety Creates Volatile Week for Markets

Yeah, I mean, I won't pretend to be an expert on quantum cryptography or cryptography in general, but essentially the concern is that quantum computing would be able to hack the encryptions that basically keep, you know, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies safe.

Bloomberg Tech
AI, Crypto Anxiety Creates Volatile Week for Markets

There are, you know, quantum resistant cryptographies that can be used and are planned to be used in other cryptocurrencies and even proposals for Bitcoin, but they're not instituted yet.

Bloomberg Tech
AI, Crypto Anxiety Creates Volatile Week for Markets

So the concern is, is this going to happen faster than most people are expecting?

Bloomberg Tech
AI, Crypto Anxiety Creates Volatile Week for Markets

What are the biggest challenges with scaling up in the US?

Bloomberg Tech
AI, Crypto Anxiety Creates Volatile Week for Markets

I think we've begun working with Saudi Arabia.

Bloomberg Tech
AI, Crypto Anxiety Creates Volatile Week for Markets

We now have salespeople on the ground in the kingdom.

Bloomberg Tech
AI, Crypto Anxiety Creates Volatile Week for Markets

It is a new effort for us, and it's not as far along as we are in the UAE and in some other territories, but it's an exciting opportunity.

Bloomberg Tech
AI, Crypto Anxiety Creates Volatile Week for Markets

I think the move by this administration to allow our allies and our partners in the Middle East

Bloomberg Tech
AI, Crypto Anxiety Creates Volatile Week for Markets

to gain access to advanced AI compute is a good one and thoughtful.

Bloomberg Tech
AI, Crypto Anxiety Creates Volatile Week for Markets

And I think having U.S.

Bloomberg Tech
AI, Crypto Anxiety Creates Volatile Week for Markets

technology from chips to software to the full stack in the hands of our allies is good policy.

Bloomberg Tech
AI, Crypto Anxiety Creates Volatile Week for Markets

Okay.

Bloomberg Tech
AI, Crypto Anxiety Creates Volatile Week for Markets

I think we work closely with G42.