BREAKDOWN: Should the People Making Crypto Policy Own No Crypto?
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
According to new ethics rules, yes.
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The U.S. Office of Government Ethics released rules this week that executive branch staffers who owned crypto would not be allowed to work on any crypto-related regulation. NLW explores the pros and cons of this, and expands the discussion to ethics and financial conflicts of interest more broadly.
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| 0:00.0 | I do think debating ethics norms around concerns of regulatory capture is super important, and |
| 0:06.1 | certainly not just with regard to crypto. Politicians, regulators, policymakers are all big, |
| 0:11.5 | weird mixtures of incentives. A lot of time in Washington, those incentives lead them to |
| 0:16.0 | strange places that aren't really in line with some greater good that we imagine they're supposed |
| 0:20.2 | to be striving for. |
| 0:21.9 | Oftentimes, those incentives are about much more immediate re-election-things than they are about |
| 0:26.6 | juicing the value of some financial assets. |
| 0:30.6 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:34.7 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:40.4 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, chain aliasis, and FtX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:48.3 | What's going on, guys? It is Thursday, July 7th, and today we are asking the question of whether the people making |
| 0:56.4 | crypto policy should not be allowed to own crypto. Before we get into that, however, if you are |
| 1:02.6 | enjoying the breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, leave a review, or if you |
| 1:09.3 | want to dig deeper into the conversation, come join us in the |
| 1:12.1 | Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit.le slash breakdown pod. |
| 1:17.7 | Also, a disclosure as always. In addition to them being a sponsor of the show, I also work with |
| 1:23.7 | FTX. So, by and large, crypto this week is doing crypto things. Bitcoin is sometimes |
| 1:30.3 | above 20,000 and sometimes below it, and then it rotates back and forth over and over again, |
| 1:34.9 | and I have a feeling this is a place we're going to be for a while. When it comes to the big substantive |
| 1:40.1 | things, all of the stories are about the continued fallout of 3AC and Luna Contagion and how |
| 1:45.9 | it's all going to resolve. In the area of regulations and policymaking, however, a new |
| 1:51.6 | legal advisory notice from the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, I think, prompts a really |
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