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Hello, everyone, and welcome to The Hash, where every day we find out who is colorblind on

this show. It is blue Thursday. I think we all have a different shade of blue one. Congratulations to the three

of us. I'm Jen Sanasi. We got Zach Seward and Adam B. Levine here to unpack the top

crypto stories of the day. Zach, you're kicking us off. What do you got? All right. I'm kicking

us off with the prospect of legal threats. Purely hypothetical here, but Brian Armstrong,

CEO of Coinbase, big old U.S. Exchange, is thinking about what would happen if there was the

potential for regulatory intervention as it relates to the new Ethereum network.

When posed a question on Twitter, he jumped in the replies and say,

hey, if push came to shove and we were asked to censor Ethereum transactions at the protocol level, we would likely do that so as to not run a foul of Johnny Law.

Rational response, potentially big picture thinking, but certainly a conversation

that is taking place quite loudly in the wake of OFAC sanctioning the entirety of the tornado

cash protocol, causing some people to be alarmed so that future actions may go even farther.

So this is interesting always to see the CEO of a major exchange in the space.

Get into the comments on Twitter.

I think that is a feature of the space.

It's relatively flat in terms of people getting involved and talking and sharing their opinions.

But the big picture here is, hey, don't want to run afoul the law.

And if it came down to it, we're a company.

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