Bankless nation, the question today is the United States of America flipping pro-Crypto?

I certainly hope so.

The US has been either anti-cripto or neutral since the birth of

Bitcoin and that's starting to change. It feels like for the first time we actually have

momentum in DC. By we I mean the crypto movement. That's not to say there's not going to be battles ahead. There will certainly be battles, but right now crypto is actually making some progress. The question for today is what would a pro-cripto America

look like? What laws do we need to get us there? Who do we need to convince? How close are we? Today we have

pro-cripto Congressman French Hill, who gives us his take on how to get there.

We discuss a few things today.

Number one, Trump's new vice president, his name is J.D. Vance, would he be a

crypto-friendly vice president?

Number two, what we learned from the Sab 121

repeal, the vote that got passed in Congress, and then Biden's veto of it. Number

three, the legislative roadmap for crypto in the United States. Number four,

Gary Gensler and the United States. Number four, Gary Gensler in the

administrative state. Number five, how to keep crypto bipartisan. Number six, the

impact of a Trump presidency on crypto. I want to do our usual political disclaimer before we get in today.

Bankless as you know is not a political podcast. We don't divide on red or blue lines.

We have no party affinity in the US or any other country around the world.

What we do care about is the values of decentralization and autonomy and power to the people

that underlie this technology of crypto.

And to the extent those values are political, so are we, but they don't

necessarily divide on party lines. We'll continue to give a voice to those

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