Thread by @nlw

Top 5 CT threads/essays last week:

🌏 @Melt_Dem on paradigm shifts
👩‍⚖️ @msantoriESQ on SEC no action letter
🇺🇸💔 @WarrenDavidson on the suckage of crypto co's leaving USA
🔐@matthew_d_green on encryption backdoors
🤳 @gladstein on ⚡️vs surveillance

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In this thread, @Melt_Dem expands the "paradigm shift" conversation to include how bitcoin breaks the trend of digitization demanding new intermediaries.

We're going to need more frame shifts and perception re-sets as we educate regulators and businesses to the new reality.

The SEC approved...arcade tokens?

@msantoriESQ explains why it's actually a meaningful step forward, despite that it feels so incremental.

We heard last week that Circle was setting up shop in Bermuda due in large part to regulatory uncertainty.

Congressman @WarrenDavidson spared no words:

"Failure to act is costing America's economy and actively harming consumers."

As @APompliano would say 🔥🔥🔥🔥

@WarrenDavidson @APompliano The Trump administration seems to want to force the issue of encryption backdoors.

@matthew_d_green dissects recent comments from AG Barr - particularly the distressing intimation that as soon as something bad happens, it will be used as an excuse to force the issue.

Yet if the prospect of backdoors are scary, there was some optimism in the fight against a panopticon future.

@gladstein argues that the Lightning Network and bitcoin could represent a powerful private payment bulwark to both government and crypto surveillance.

Thanks as always to the good folks at @BLOCKTVnews for producing this segment!

For those who prefer to listen than watch, I also released a podcast version, available anywhere you listen. open.spotify.com/episode/6pVC2G…