There's a Mitch Hedberg bit about whether the belt loops are holding up the belt or the belt is holding up the belt loops.

Always comes to mind re Coinbase and Circle.

Did you do one on Jeremy Allaire?

Ironic that he's one of few tech billionaires who is not building a cannon to fire himself into the sun.

I'm just holding out until it can be used for agentic AI payments.

Bleak.

Hey at least we're moving away from the idiot terms "cryptocurrency" and "digital asset."

They think the tradeoff between short term deregulation, tax breaks, and lax enforcement are worth the long term destruction of the economy. Because 'I'll be gone, you'll be gone."

They are also craven lunatics. There's some overlap but I wager it's mostly the first thing.

Even more than the prospect of running against any of these Senators who are busy meeting with crypto CEOs while Trump escalates his attacks on Minneapolis

www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/...

I love this show, I love these people, but all three of them look like AI age projections of themselves.

Truly amazing to be so selectively ignorant - there is a rift in the party currently boiling over in the Senate regarding crypto billionaires vs. workers.

He doesn't know how to write any other songs.

Predicting and fantasizing at the same time.

The characterization is hilarious - equity tokenization is explicitly allowed in the bill and even given favorable treatment.

Brian wants *unregistered* tokenized equities. Even crypto-mom (Commissioner Peirce) thinks that's crazy.