Where does this stop, David? Are they going to arrest Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the internet

protocols? How about Netscape, 1994, who designed HTTPS? Remember, Mark Andreessen talked about

kind of crypto wars 1.0 when he came on the podcast, who's talking about the battle there? I mean,

are the developers of internet protocols responsible for how North Korea uses the internet in order to

do nefarious things that Treasury doesn't want? It's absolutely ludicrous, and I think that if Treasury

or ever any government of regulator in the U.S. took this type of stance towards communication,

we would have no Silicon Valley, we would have no free and open internet based largely in the U.S.

today, but we would have none of this innovation and economic GDP growth. It would have been completely

squelched.

Bankless Nation, it is the last Friday of August. David, what time is it? It's the Bankless Friday

weekly roll-up where we cover the entire weekly news and crypto, which is always an ambitious endeavor

yet. We persevere nonetheless into the frontier. How are you doing, Ryan?

I was doing okay. Just okay, though. This week felt like a gut punch, and we're going to talk

about the bad thing that happened this week and in the show. There's also some good stuff, but I

mean getting the bad thing out of the way. Number one, the Department of Justice has arrested Roman

Seminoff. This is a U.S. developer of tornado cash, an open source privacy developer.

This one hurt, David. It feels like crypto continues to be under attack. Privacy and freedom

are under attack. It's a big freaking deal, and we're going to spend some time talking about it in

that episode. That's the bad stuff, but we got some good stuff, too. What else are we talking about?

We have a good stuff. The arrival of EIP4844 draws closer. This is, of course, the one that

scales up layer 2s further than they already have. The friend.tech debate continues. Is it good or

bad? Ron and I did an entire show on that. We will recap it very quickly, but really talk about

...