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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks. That'd be well.

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Speaker 2: The US government had been investigating how crypto currencies were traded,

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Speaker 2: but the new prison has meant for some big changes

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Speaker 2: on the crypto front in the US. Our expert Paul

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Speaker 2: Stenhouse is here with the details. He's a big crypto

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Speaker 2: guy at the best of times. But yeah, well, I mean,

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Speaker 2: if only you had been a big crypto guy, right,

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Speaker 2: because it's with a whole lot more today than it

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Speaker 2: was three months ago.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I did. I did make a little

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Speaker 3: bit of money out.

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Speaker 2: Did you have a mean coin or did you just

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Speaker 2: go with bitcoin?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 3: Just bitcoin. I was just scared to do the others.

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Speaker 3: But I do know people who have made like six figures,

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Speaker 3: so do I coin. Yeah, it's pretty incredible.

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Speaker 2: Well you got five grades, don't laugh. I mean that's impressive.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, probably know a few people have lost money as well,

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Speaker 2: spect Paul, But you don't hear about the stories plan anyway. Anyway.

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Speaker 3: No, So, the the big app that people used typically

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Speaker 3: is called Coinbase, and Coinbase was the target of the

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Speaker 3: SEC's investigations as the sort of biggest player, and the

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Speaker 3: SEC was sort of looking at the crypto market and saying,

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Speaker 3: this looks a lot like stocks, this looks a lot

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Speaker 3: like bonds, and those types of things typically need to

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Speaker 3: be registered with the FBC. There are very strict rules

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Speaker 3: and regulations about how you sell them, how you don't

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Speaker 3: lock up periods, about information and all sorts of things,

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Speaker 3: and they went, this looks pretty similar. And so there

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Speaker 3: was this investigation taking place, and now with President Trump,

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Speaker 3: it seems that that has disappeared. Jack the Coinbase CEO,

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Speaker 3: said that the SEC says that they're going to fully

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Speaker 3: dismiss its investigation. No penalties are applying to it, and

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Speaker 3: it's basically case closed. Here's one thing that's interesting to note.

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Speaker 3: Though Coinbase gave seventy five million dollars to pro crypto packs,

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Speaker 3: they made a seven figure donation to Trump inaugural committee,

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Speaker 3: and the CEO gave about one point three million dollars

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Speaker 3: in personal contributions.

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Speaker 2: Sure they're not those things aren't related at all. It's

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Speaker 2: totally totally independent. Series of act speak of the US

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Speaker 2: government and the big changes that are underway. Despite President

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Speaker 2: Trump's close relationship with Elon Muski la Musk, of course

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Speaker 2: being the founder of Tesla. The US government is turning

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Speaker 2: off it's EV charges.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe it's because they don't have enough Teslas and

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Speaker 3: they've got other cars and who knows. But there's a

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Speaker 3: government branch called the General Services Administration that's sort of

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Speaker 3: like the ones who run all the facilities of the government,

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Speaker 3: and they are now starting to shut down turn off

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Speaker 3: all of the EV charges they had started to put

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Speaker 3: in because Biden was on a mission to basically try

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Speaker 3: to get over half a majority of the six hundred

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Speaker 3: and fifty thousand federal vehicles to be evs. And of course,

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Speaker 3: if you have EVS, you need charges, you need infrastructure.

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Speaker 3: They have basically now said that it is quote not

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Speaker 3: mission critical to be spending time, effort, money on these charges.

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Speaker 3: So instead of just turning them off or letting them

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Speaker 3: break and not fix them, they're actually working to remove

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Speaker 3: those exact things they had already started putting them in.

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Speaker 3: They were talking about sort of eight thousand plugs that

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Speaker 3: were across the federal government, and they've already started to

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Speaker 3: buy evs. Jack They've already started to buy fifty eight

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Speaker 3: thousand as of March last year, late the number was

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Speaker 3: So what happens to the cars that they've audited. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: are they going to be sold? Are they going to

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Speaker 3: be put into storage? It seems like a little bit

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Speaker 3: of a waste.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, a lot of changes on that

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Speaker 2: front at the moment. It's hard to keep up, so

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Speaker 2: I thank for bringing those to our attention. Paul. Paul's

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Speaker 2: then house our texpert there. In a couple of minutes,

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