Robert Hackett

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665 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2025 last heard 1 Aug

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

And, you know, there's this thing that happens on TV shows.

I'm sure you watch them, crime procedurals, cop procedurals, where they're like, I'm the criminal, you know, wire me the money in Bitcoin.

Nobody's going to know about it.

So let's talk about some of the other objections to the bill.

Another big one is ethics reform.

So the president, his family members, they have interests in crypto businesses.

This will come as a surprise to nobody who's been reading the news.

How do you... And so the critics say that this bill will enrich the people who are most vocally supportive of it.

How do you address that?

Okay, so there are government ethics rules in the bill, and also it's a separate issue from creating market structure rules for crypto.

Maybe these are separable issues.

Got it.

You mentioned stablecoins again just now, and one of the big fights has been over the treatment of stablecoins in this bill, in particular the banking lobby.

Most notably, JPMorgan Chase has been very vocal about this.

They are unhappy with the idea that you could earn interest on stablecoin holdings.

Now, the fear, the concern, the worry is that if consumers can earn interest on stablecoins, that they're going to pull their money out of banks and keep them in these other accounts.

That's going to cause deposit flight.

And they don't want that to happen.

So what's the state of that situation?

The thing that I find so interesting is, you know, this debate has been embodied by Brian Armstrong versus Jamie Dimon.

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