100M$ Fight for Crypto in D.C. with Ryan Selkis
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🗓️ 7 June 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Today we're joined by Ryan Selkis, the Founder and CEO of Messari and an outspoken political advocate for the crypto industry. We explore the current state of Crypto Regulation and how Ryan plans to fight in Washington with the Digital Freedom Alliance.
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Topics Covered
0:00 Intro
9:34 Does Washington Want to Kill Crypto?
15:45 How the US Affects Global Regulation
27:54 Ryan Selkis Proposal
43:10 What we can learn from SBF
51:20 The Digital Freedom Alliance
59:08 Why we have to Play Politics
1:03:49 What’s Next
1:08:00 Closing and Disclaimers
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Resources:
Ryan Selkis
https://twitter.com/twobitidiot
Join the Digital Freedom Alliance
https://joindfa.org/
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| 0:00.0 | The $100 million fight for crypto in Washington DC, that's what Ryan Silkis, our next guest, |
| 0:13.0 | feels like we need in order to take this battle to DC and to win. |
| 0:17.8 | Some questions we had for him in this episode, can we actually raise $100 million to fight |
| 0:21.6 | for crypto in DC? |
| 0:23.1 | What would that even look like? |
| 0:24.1 | What would we spend this on? |
| 0:25.9 | Is the US really the place we should fight? |
| 0:27.8 | I thought crypto was international. |
| 0:29.1 | Why do we need money in politics to fight this fight anyway? |
| 0:33.2 | We talk about the window of opportunity to actually get this right. |
| 0:35.8 | Ryan Silkis thinks we have a very narrow window in which to deploy these funds, or else |
| 0:40.6 | we lose the opportunity, and then we get to Ryan's proposal for a new organization that |
| 0:44.6 | he is creating to help win this fight in DC. |
| 0:48.1 | David, this is the year of regulatory. |
| 0:50.0 | It's 2023. |
| 0:51.0 | I feel like that's been a major theme for the year, and that's why this episode is important. |
| 0:55.1 | Yeah, it's been the year of bad regulatory guidance, bad regulatory oversight. |
| 0:59.3 | And Ryan Silkis wants to make it the year of good regulatory oversight with what he is |
| 1:03.3 | proposing here with a digital freedom alliance. |
| 1:06.5 | But before we get into that conversation with Ryan, I want to talk to you about asymmetrics |
| 1:10.4 | protocol, with our friends and sponsors at asymmetrics. |
| 1:13.4 | If you are familiar with pool together, it's quite like that except with ETH staking. |
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