Hey, all, there was so much crypto news that dropped on Thursday that we decided we wanted to do an extra bonus show on why the stable coin bill stalled in the Senate.

We did a live stream of my conversation with Kristen Smith and Amanda Tuminelli on Friday morning on YouTube and X.

And that is what we are releasing now here. Enjoy.

There was a tremendous amount of time at the senator level themselves that they

spent over the past few days negotiating this. They're not going to want that to be for no reason.

And so I think, you know, we will be able to get this moving forward. And I think we, regardless

of what the text says, even if there's flaws in the text, we want to keep the process going.

Because if it turns out that we can't even

get a simple stable coin bill through the Senate, it's going to make it very, very difficult for

market structure to follow suit and keep the process alive.

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