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Ryan Adams

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ROLLUP: Crypto’s Nasdaq Problem | The CLARITY Act | Saylor Selling? | ETH L1 Scaling

He used to be in Patrick Witt's situation.

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ROLLUP: Crypto’s Nasdaq Problem | The CLARITY Act | Saylor Selling? | ETH L1 Scaling

He used to be the crypto council executive director.

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ROLLUP: Crypto’s Nasdaq Problem | The CLARITY Act | Saylor Selling? | ETH L1 Scaling

He's now at Tether.

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ROLLUP: Crypto’s Nasdaq Problem | The CLARITY Act | Saylor Selling? | ETH L1 Scaling

Patrick Witt is the guy who replaced him.

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ROLLUP: Crypto’s Nasdaq Problem | The CLARITY Act | Saylor Selling? | ETH L1 Scaling

I think what they're going to do here is, I don't think they're going to announce a program for purchasing Bitcoin.

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ROLLUP: Crypto’s Nasdaq Problem | The CLARITY Act | Saylor Selling? | ETH L1 Scaling

What I think they're going to do is actually announce the execution and implementation of Trump's executive order, his strategic Bitcoin reserve executive order that really hasn't been implemented.

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ROLLUP: Crypto’s Nasdaq Problem | The CLARITY Act | Saylor Selling? | ETH L1 Scaling

And I think what they're going to do is go down the process of creating a Fort Knox for crypto.

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ROLLUP: Crypto’s Nasdaq Problem | The CLARITY Act | Saylor Selling? | ETH L1 Scaling

I think that's the part of it.

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ROLLUP: Crypto’s Nasdaq Problem | The CLARITY Act | Saylor Selling? | ETH L1 Scaling

So if you recall, there was an executive order of March of last year that called for a few things.

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ROLLUP: Crypto’s Nasdaq Problem | The CLARITY Act | Saylor Selling? | ETH L1 Scaling

One, centralized cold storage of all of the Bitcoin that the US government had.

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ROLLUP: Crypto’s Nasdaq Problem | The CLARITY Act | Saylor Selling? | ETH L1 Scaling

You recall, all the Bitcoin, all the crypto assets seized.

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ROLLUP: Crypto’s Nasdaq Problem | The CLARITY Act | Saylor Selling? | ETH L1 Scaling

Were scattered across the DOJ, you know, cold wallets and desk drawers.

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ROLLUP: Crypto’s Nasdaq Problem | The CLARITY Act | Saylor Selling? | ETH L1 Scaling

So you need something centralized, some cold storage, some Fort Knox type of infrastructure in order to do this.

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ROLLUP: Crypto’s Nasdaq Problem | The CLARITY Act | Saylor Selling? | ETH L1 Scaling

I think also an audit framework will be part of this.

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ROLLUP: Crypto’s Nasdaq Problem | The CLARITY Act | Saylor Selling? | ETH L1 Scaling

I think they'll formalize that we're not selling Bitcoin.

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ROLLUP: Crypto’s Nasdaq Problem | The CLARITY Act | Saylor Selling? | ETH L1 Scaling

The teeth behind this

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ROLLUP: Crypto’s Nasdaq Problem | The CLARITY Act | Saylor Selling? | ETH L1 Scaling

And I think they will do this.

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ROLLUP: Crypto’s Nasdaq Problem | The CLARITY Act | Saylor Selling? | ETH L1 Scaling

They will give Bitcoin, maybe some other crypto assets, a reserve asset designation.

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ROLLUP: Crypto’s Nasdaq Problem | The CLARITY Act | Saylor Selling? | ETH L1 Scaling

So that puts it in kind of the class on the Fed balance sheet alongside gold, alongside other fiat currencies that they might hold and SDRs.

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ROLLUP: Crypto’s Nasdaq Problem | The CLARITY Act | Saylor Selling? | ETH L1 Scaling

So I think that's what they're really going to do.