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"...and urge you to consider our objective and independent expert judgments to guide your legislative priorities, which we remain happy to discuss anytime." So
by prohobo 4y ago
"...and urge you to consider our objective and independent expert judgments to guide your legislative priorities, which we remain happy to discuss anytime."
So they have no real demands, just "listen to us about crypto, and not anyone else". I'm all for responsible regulation to protect people from scams, but this is ridiculous.
Signatories include every single mega tech corporation, which is an obvious development; they want to control this too.
- paulgb 4y agoI mean, that seems like a reasonable demand? We all know that most politicians have a shaky understanding of technology at best, and corporate lobbyists fill that information void with a narrative that advantages their employers. This is a neutral (as in not on crypto payroll) group of technologists saying “hey, we understand this stuff at a technical and/or economic level, we’re willing to talk too”. The signatures from FAANG companies are mostly rank and file engineers. I doubt their companies asked them to sign, but I think it’s representative of how widespread crypto skepticism is in tech.
- prohobo 4y agoThey're aren't all neutral, many of them are working on private blockchain technologies. For example, anyone working for Meta is on the crypto payroll - just not the Bitcoin/Ethereum/etc ones. My pointed questions are: 1) What are their specific concerns/demands? 2) Who specifically are politicians supposed to be listening to? 3) Why aren't the government appointed CBDC research groups already informing politicians? 4) If they are, then what is this letter about? This is about on the same level as the "Please stop people from talking about the Wuhan lab leak" letter.
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