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.Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 on why crypto's regulatory environment failed innovators: "There's a specific degenerate form of government called anarcho-tyranny... The anarcho part is you let the rule breakers go absolutely nuts. The tyranny part is you regulate or prosecute the good actors to death." "Startups outside the US went... show more

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suqitah1 month ago

@pmarca worth asking which startups he means, because plenty stayed inside the lines and still got a full audit treatment for it

sindikitil1 month ago

@pmarca Anarcho-tyranny nails it. Regulators go after the ones who ask permission, ignore the ones who don't.

icefrog.◎1 month ago

@pmarca Nailed the logic

Chayakrit Krittanawong, MD, FACC, FSCAI1 month ago

@pmarca The real failure was regulatory asymmetry: too much uncertainty for compliant builders and too little effective enforcement against bad actors. Good regulation should reduce the advantage of rule-breakers without making innovation impossible for responsible companies.

niazi murataj1 month ago

Back out east of the wall, we call anarcho-tyranny good ol’ fashioned oligarchy. Imagine having your shipping containers smuggled through & the response being you get put in jail, and the government is in the rest of the world is a cryptographic shipping container context layer with an agentic environment and impex skills library pre-loaded that I built to evidence my family business innocence internationally, saving it from said anarcho-tyranny by laying out the cold, hard truth in front of the narrative-benders and fake media. @pmarca you’d find it interesting

Huda1 month ago

@pmarca I build payments infrastructure in MENA. While US Congress debates CLARITY, Japan's top 3 banks are issuing stablecoins by March 2027. UAE VARA licenses are already live. Talent follows deployable rails.

Kam Hossieny | CRO1 month ago

@pmarca Clear rules encourage innovation. Uncertainty punishes honest builders first, mate.

Hamid AI1 month ago

@pmarca Crypto adoption is accelerating—exciting times ahead! 🚀

Jason傑森 🇭🇰 | 🛠️1 month ago

@pmarca 乱成这样谁还敢来建东西啊

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