Episode notes
With the July 4th deadline closing in, the odds of getting BRCA passed in a form the industry can accept are looking worse by the week. Ken Egan, Zach Cohen, and Zach Shapiro break down where the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act and the broader CLARITY Act stand, why the opposition has had too much time to rally, and what the final software-developer protections might actually look like. They also unpack Illinois' first-of-its-kind 0.2% digital-asset "privilege tax" and what it signals for self-custody.
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Chapters:
02:27 — CLARITY Act & BRCA: Bearish Before the July 4th Deadline09:08 — Illinois' 0.2% Digital-Asset "Privilege Tax"14:27 — NYC Primaries, Mamdani & Rising Populism20:27 — The SpaceX IPO: A Bet on Elon30:23 — Anthropic, Fable 5 & the Export-Control Shock34:34 — KYC for AI vs. KYC for Bitcoin41:00 — Reluctant Accelerationist & the China AI Race47:16 — Nationalizing Frontier Labs + BPI Summit Preview52:51 — Iran, the Strait of Hormuz & a War Without an End
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