All right, check check. What is going on, everyone? Welcome back to another Crypto Daily 3 at 3.

So I swear I was really intending today to not just focus on Libra again. We've had obviously nonstop Libra for the last couple days with the Senate hearings and the House hearings, but the reality is

is that still we're in that cycle, right? And today is all about what happened after in the aftermath.

So it's going to be a little bit about Libra again. I'm sure that we'll start to move into other areas.

But, you know, this has elevated Bitcoin and crypto in a totally new way.

And so we're just going to have to deal with it for a little bit.

So let's dive in.

So just to recap yesterday, kind of the sentiment coming out of this.

I thought Ariana Simpson's tweet here really captured it.

I was positive on Libra as an on-ramp for crypto.

I hadn't fully considered that it would push Bitcoin

into the arms of regulators as the better option. Never thought I'd see the day. Now, not everyone

in the comments agreed with her. Some really smart folks like Jake Trevinsky and Hasew didn't

quite have the same interpretation. But I do think that a lot of us who are watching these hearings

were stunned, frankly, with how many people were drawing

comparisons between Libra and Bitcoin and with Bitcoin on the kind of the favorable side.

That is obviously not the case for everyone.

And there's a difference between the central bankers themselves and congressional representatives.

So, you know, one of the things that's,

that was kind of interesting about the timing of this

is that it was right before the G7 meeting.

And so you had Secretary Mnuchin,

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