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Well, I haven't, since I've been so focused on AI stuff, I haven't actually been looking at this particular area closely. Obviously, there's a whole bunch of things that are being developed within the crypto arena to try to have kind of ledgers and identity and all the rest of that. And the promise of that is to try to create
Something that has, you know, to elaborate on, I think, Scott's excellent comments is, you know, how do we have trustless trust, which is a trust in the system that doesn't require trust in a centralized authority, you know, whose, you know, ability to hold that trust may be limited. And so I think, you know, that's one area that I think continues to bear along. Now, none of it has any
of the in-depth traction that Apple or other, because the key thing with payments tends to be ease of use and integration in your environment. I think that part of what Stripe's doing,
that I think great is making it very easy to incorporate, you know, kind of Delaware corporations from anywhere or from many areas in the world, and then provide a, a kind of a economic powering structure underneath that to power entrepreneurship is I think like a really good thing.
But, but like I said, this, I've been so focused at AI that in this area, I'm, I'm, I think someone might call me after this and say, this is really good. And I go, oh yeah, that's the thing I should have said, but I just didn't know at the time.
All right, Scott and Reid, let's go on a quick break. When we come back, we'll talk about RFK Jr. 's contentious confirmation hearing.
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