ROLLUP: Clarity Bill Stalls | Powell vs. Trump | NYC Meme Rug | Silver Explodes | X Adds Crypto
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🗓️ 16 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Bankless Nation is the third week of January's time for the Bankless weekly rollup. |
| 0:09.1 | The Clarity Bill. It took front and center. It was in the Senate. It was a big conversation this week. |
| 0:13.4 | It's probably the most important bill for crypto. I would say, David, even above the genius bill, which was much more straightforward, much more simple. But the clarity bill is supposed to do what we hope, which is provide clarity to crypto on what's legal in the U.S. and what's not. There's some horse trading going on, though. The bank lobby hates... Horse trading. Horse trading. Horse trading. I've never heard of this phrase. Yeah, horse trading. It's like all the parties are, you know, negotiating together to see what they can get in and what they'll tolerate and what they won't. You know, it's all the lobby is working. Okay, we're negotiating. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bank lobby wants to kill stable coin yield. They don't want you to have that, David, you in particular. Right. Also, Coinbase is now rage quitting as of the latest. They say, they saw that. They withdrew their support. They did. |
| 0:55.1 | The current version of the bill, they say, is worse than it not passing. But there are some |
| 0:59.1 | still that I appreciate and respect in crypto that still like this bill, even as is. They say it's |
| 1:04.2 | passable. Of course, they'd be on the Coinbase side of things in general, but we got to figure |
| 1:08.8 | all that out, uncover the bill, and also figure out whether |
| 1:12.9 | it's going to pass or if we actually want it. |
| 1:16.8 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:17.4 | And what is it going to take? |
| 1:18.7 | What do we have to give up to get that to pass versus what can we win? |
| 1:22.9 | But there's plenty of other things to talk about. |
| 1:24.7 | Jerome Powell, under criminal investigation from Trump's Department |
| 1:27.7 | of Justice, is the central bank able to remain independent? And also, also in the world of finance |
| 1:34.7 | and our government leaders, former New York City mayor, Eric Adams, issues a meme coin. And you can |
| 1:41.7 | guess what happens next, right? What you can happen next? What after merely hours after he issued the meme coin? you can guess what happens next right when you can happen next what after merely hours |
| 1:46.7 | after you issued the meme coin well the first step when you launch a meme coin is you launch it and the |
| 1:51.2 | second step is always you got to rug people you got to rug people as many people as you can don't tell me |
| 1:56.1 | that's what happened story was any different we're also talking about it everyone placed your bets yeah we're going to talk about it. Everyone placed your bets. |
| 2:01.7 | Yeah. |
| 2:01.9 | I'm going to talk about the silver, silver going absolutely parabolic and X rolling out |
| 2:06.5 | crypto integrations while also killing InfoFi, which I think is a fantastic thing. |
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