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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: Here with Us now Live. Ripple CEO Brad.

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Speaker 3: Garling House, And of course this has been a long battle.

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Speaker 3: How much certainty does this provide is the entire case over.

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Speaker 4: So this provides a lot of certainty for Ripple, for

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Speaker 4: Frankly me personally, because the SEC had sued me. The

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Speaker 4: SEC has abandoned their appeal, and so they filed suit

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Speaker 4: in December of twenty twenty. We won on the key

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Speaker 4: parts of the case. In the summer of twenty three,

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Speaker 4: Judge Torres made a ruling that XRP in and of

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Speaker 4: itself was not a security. It's almost overbatim quote. The

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Speaker 4: SEC filed an appeal about eight months ago, and what

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Speaker 4: they've now agreed is.

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Speaker 1: They're going to drop that appeal.

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Speaker 4: We still have a cross appeal pending, and so we

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Speaker 4: go from being defendant really too plaintiff.

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Speaker 1: So we now are.

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Speaker 4: The driver's seat to determine how we want to proceed.

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Speaker 2: Are you dropping it?

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Speaker 4: We're going to see it feels a lot better to

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Speaker 4: be on the offense than the defense. You know, four years,

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Speaker 4: we spent over one hundred and fifty million dollars defending

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Speaker 4: that case. Not just for Ripple, but for the whole industry.

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Speaker 4: I think it was really important that this SEC, the

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Speaker 4: Gensler SEC, was really trying to bully and continued law

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Speaker 4: fair filing lawsuits and lawsuits and lawsuits against crypto companies.

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Speaker 4: That's over now, and I think that's great for the

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Speaker 4: US crypto industry and frankly great for crypto at large.

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Speaker 3: I mean, to that end, if you're looking at a

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Speaker 3: new SEC, why not drop the case at this point?

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Speaker 3: Why not clear the pay or why not clear the water?

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Speaker 1: Well, that certainly is an option.

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Speaker 4: I mean, again, it's clear the SEC has said, you

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Speaker 4: know they I think in retrospect never would have brought

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Speaker 4: this case.

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Speaker 1: The judge did rule in certain.

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Speaker 4: Instances back in twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen some XRP

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Speaker 4: sales that we sold to accredited investors to institutions that

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Speaker 4: those had constituted a security, and so there was a

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Speaker 4: one hundred and twenty five million dollar fine that's sitting

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Speaker 4: in escrow. We wouldn't mind having that back. That's on

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Speaker 4: the table, and I think they're some nuances to know

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Speaker 4: how this will play out. But it was important for us,

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Speaker 4: for really the whole XRP community for them to know

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Speaker 4: that the cases for all intense purposes, the case is over.

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Speaker 1: The SEC is no longer pursuing that to that.

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Speaker 3: End, to your point here, the court decision had ordered

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Speaker 3: you to pay a one hundred and twenty five million

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Speaker 3: dollars civil penalty for exactly what you were talking about.

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Speaker 3: Is that one hundred and twenty five million paid, is

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Speaker 3: what you're saying.

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Speaker 2: That's still up participet.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's not a dispute.

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Speaker 4: I mean, that's sitting in an escrow, and you know,

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Speaker 4: depending upon whether we decide to continue with our appeal,

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Speaker 4: we could walk away.

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Speaker 1: And the whole thing and be done, done done.

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Speaker 4: On the other hand, when you have a case where

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Speaker 4: there were no investor, no investor harm, no investors lost.

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Speaker 1: Any money, you're kind of like, wait, like why are

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Speaker 1: we here?

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Speaker 4: And it really goes back to Gary Gensler fighting a

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Speaker 4: fight that was about power grab, that was about overreach

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Speaker 4: of the bureaucracy to try to take a new industry.

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Speaker 4: That what we're seeing now happening in Washington is smart

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Speaker 4: legislation will come forward that happened with stable coins in

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Speaker 4: real time, and I think you'll have a market Structure

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Speaker 4: Bill is what it's described as to provide clarity and

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Speaker 4: rules for the SEC and CF we will look at.

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Speaker 2: The bigger picture.

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Speaker 3: We're going to have you for a little while this morning.

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Speaker 3: But do you think that part of this means fighting

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Speaker 3: it till the very end to make sure even that

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Speaker 3: part of uncertainty around being sold to certain investors classifies

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Speaker 2: Is that what you are fighting for ultimately at this point?

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, at this point, all we're fighting for

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Speaker 4: is do we want to fight to get one hundred

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Speaker 1: We look, I'll be honest.

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Speaker 4: Would I have walked away from that before they appealed?

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Speaker 4: Before President Trump put Paul Atkins and Scott Bessend and

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Speaker 1: Now you look at that, like this case in.

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Speaker 4: This SEC never would have been brought. And so where

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Speaker 4: we find ourselves is great. There's a clear illegal victory

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Speaker 4: to say xarp's not a security that was good for

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Speaker 4: the industry, But there's pieces of it that we think

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Speaker 4: we want to fight that fight or can we come

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Speaker 4: to agreement with the SEC to drop everything the whole

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Speaker 2: This wouldn't have been brought under this SEC.

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Speaker 3: Have you had that specific discussion with Paul Adkins and

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Speaker 3: with David Sachs.

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Speaker 1: Well, Paul Adkins hasn't yet been confirmed.

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Speaker 4: You know, he's a very knowledgele guy about this industry

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Speaker 4: and has been for.

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Speaker 1: A long time. But I've had conversations.

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Speaker 4: I won't comment on specifics with certainly, you know, I

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Speaker 4: think David Sachs would agree that this is a case

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Speaker 4: that didn't make a lot of sense in the beginning. Again,

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Speaker 4: there was no investor harm. This was about Gary Gensler

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Speaker 4: waging new war against this industry.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting.

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Speaker 3: I want to also point out that the affiliated token,

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Speaker 3: of course XRP has been up roughly fourteen percent now

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Speaker 3: about thirteen percent in the last twenty four hours.

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Speaker 2: You know, one thing a lot of people had looked at.

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Speaker 3: We're thinking a lot about how the administration is handling

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Speaker 3: crypto assets, particularly outside of bitcoin. Why do you think

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Speaker 3: XRP wasn't specifically named in the Executive order for the

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Speaker 3: Digital asset STOCKPIP.

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Speaker 4: Well, so XRP was named by the President in untruth

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Speaker 4: social he posted something saying that there should be other tokens,

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Speaker 4: that there's going to be a bitcoin strategic reserve and

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Speaker 4: then a crypto stockpile that would include things like excesse.

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Speaker 2: Later the executive order didn't include it. Why was that.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what specifically is in the executive order.

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Speaker 4: My understanding is there's going to be a bitcoin strategic reserve,

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Speaker 4: there'll be a crypto stockpile representing other cryptos, and I

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Speaker 4: would expect that will include XRP. Look, at the end

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Speaker 4: and that's just a massive change. I think we want

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Speaker 3: I think the reason they keep pushing you too is

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Speaker 3: because I think now it's widely accepted that this is

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Speaker 3: the extent you have confidence right about XRP being in

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Speaker 3: that stockpile or otherwise getting more support for an ETF

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Speaker 3: for example, Where does that confidence come from and what

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Speaker 2: It happening A on?

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Speaker 1: So I have immense confidence on the ETF.

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Speaker 4: I think there's eleven different filings pending with the SEC

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Speaker 4: to launch ETFs from everybody from bitwise to Franklin Templeton

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Speaker 4: and a whole bunch of people in between. I think

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Speaker 4: those will be live in the second half of this year.

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Speaker 4: We have seen even outside the United States, you have

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Speaker 4: inflows into XRP. And I think that's because you had

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Speaker 4: this false negative pressure from the SEC. This is kind of,

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Speaker 1: And that's great for the market.

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Speaker 4: It's great for builders within the XRP ecosystem globally.

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Speaker 2: One more on the stock pam, Yeah, how much XRP

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Speaker 4: Well, my understanding what I read about the I mean,

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Speaker 4: I think there are some questions and that the devil.

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Speaker 4: Maybe in the details as Treasury implements some.

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Speaker 2: Of this absolutely details, but.

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Speaker 4: My understanding is that the stockpile wi be represented by

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Speaker 4: seized other cryptos other than Bitcoin, that then we'll be

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Speaker 1: So to the extent that.

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Speaker 4: Various law enforcement agencies have seized cryptos which would include XRP,

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Speaker 4: that those would go into the stockpile in addition to

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Speaker 3: That's my understanding, Riple CEO Brad garling House. And of

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Speaker 3: course we have been talking here about a big moment

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Speaker 3: for you and for your company, of course, a rollback

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Speaker 3: really of the tensions that had been brewing.

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Speaker 2: With the SEC. And let's talk about the next phase.

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Speaker 3: One thing I'm really wondering about now that there's more

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Speaker 3: clarity for you, is that is an IPO, frankly in

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Speaker 3: that is a method of listing.

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Speaker 2: So is listing possible now for you for Ripple, well.

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Speaker 1: Certainly something that is possible.

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Speaker 4: The United States SEC under Gensler was so hostile to

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Speaker 1: So this sec fortunately is going.

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Speaker 4: To be I think very constructive and positive for this industry.

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Speaker 1: So I think that's available.

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Speaker 4: consider that. That being said, it isn't a huge priority,

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Speaker 4: You know, we have been in a very fortunate position

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Speaker 4: frankly more proactive and looking at acquisitions. That this is

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Speaker 4: And I think the industry is still underestimating the shift

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Speaker 3: So it sounds like what you're saying, acquisitions are almost

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Speaker 3: more of a priority now than an IPO for you.

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Speaker 3: So then what would you be looking for to buy

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Speaker 3: and how big are you willing to go?

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm not going to name names, but look Ripple

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Speaker 4: at its core is a blockchain infrastructure company. We sell

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Speaker 4: our technologies to business, primarily financial institutions, and we'll look

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Speaker 4: at other things that are blockchain infrastructure companies. I think

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Speaker 4: there will be consolidation this year. There's a lot of

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Speaker 3: So when you think about what's possible in terms of

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Speaker 3: financial institutions, there's been a lot of conversation about loosening

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Speaker 1: I mean I think unequivocally yes.

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Speaker 4: I mean, just in the last few weeks, I have

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Speaker 1: We don't want lawsuits.

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Speaker 4: Let's actually work and let's codify and get legislation to

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Speaker 2: We'll be keeping a close eye on those moves. Brad,

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Speaker 3: On said, I know that it's a big announcement and

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Speaker 3: still ahead. That is of course, Ripple CEO Brad Garling House,