Crypto's Lobbying, in Plain Sight, BBS 2026 Day 1
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0:00A: You know, lobbying is a major thing in America.
0:02B: Last year at this time, everything was Stand With Crypto at Union Station. Last year at Union Station, every sign in there said Stand With Crypto.
0:09A: Wait, it said Stand With Crypto?
0:12B: Yeah, like Stand With Crypto is like the big crypto lobbying platform here in the US.
0:16A: Oh snap, I didn’t hear about that. I got to check into that.
0:19B: Yeah, yeah. But I’m just saying they had ads all over DC when I came last year for this conference.
0:23A: Oh yeah, that’s crazy.
0:24B: So I’m saying crypto lobbying was visible everywhere.
0:26A: Yeah, yeah. But see, Well, you know, the main thing about the laws with crypto is it’s only set in place for the government to be able to get involved and control it some way or another. But the problem is they can’t control it. So the Genius Act, like, they implemented because, oh, they’re like, they were saying, oh, crypto’s bad until they learned a way to be able to tax it. Oh, so now it’s all the Genius Act. We’re going to -- we’re trying to move to crypto now. We’re trying to move to -- like, it’s really just a money thing.
