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“And I'm here to tell you that without it, we never would have caught these guys. In fact, without the blockchain, they would have still been sitting in the federal government today instead of in the federal penitentiary.”

“So there's, that's where you end up seeing very, a little stronger sorry, less innovation when it comes to some areas, because even though it'd be in the best interest of the federal government to take care of homeless issues, it doesn't actually at the end of…”

“You know, we've now got, I think, throughout the federal government about 500 of such folks who are here as term employees to help us with, ah, different types of digital and data projects throughout the federal government.”

“All of that is to say that the states can almost be A forcing mechanism or a forcing function for the federal government to respond more quickly.”

“I mean, one of the nice things in an emerging technology space, Is if you have 50, actually I think there's 55 different state jurisdictions because of territories and things like that, looking at it, if somebody makes a misstep, we can correct, or people can,…”

“I worry that that is a, is going to make a lot of cybersecurity questions much, much more difficult as a policy matter to address, at least at the federal level.”

“I believe it's in the Obama administration. The federal government basically said that the government would lend anybody the money to go to college who needed it.”

“And I think the most important thing is policies where just force more demand onshore, which is either tariffs, or if you're getting paid by the DOD or the federal government for a product, your entire supply chain should be onshore, and then let capitalism fi…”

“Today, like, everybody's power in government is measured by how big their budget is and how many people they have. And so, again, we get the exact behavior we incent, which is everybody wants to, like, grow their budget and grow their people.”

“My primary goals for our organization is, number one is, I want operational efficiency to actually be a real first class metric in the government, right?”

“The people who are screening resumes for technologists in the government perhaps don't have the background to know what exactly we need, what exactly we're looking for. Oftentimes are the same people screening resumes for a bunch of different roles under their…”

“For me specifically, I have more auditors auditing my team than I have team members. And that's not hyperbole.”

“The vast majority of things we do don't involve sovereignty or national security, or does somebody actually get a social security check?”

“I actually believe you could probably cut 50% of the federal government ex-military easily.”

“If the federal government wanted to find you, a license plate reader is the dumbest way to do it. I will just get a cell phone dump. And I will know your exact location and time at all times.”