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“So in the nineties, the U.S. Government actually banned the exporting of strong cryptography.”

“The gradual expansion of currency in circulation gives the US government some tens of billions of dollars of revenue.”

“Now, aside from its salacious facts, that case was the first example of the US government using blockchain technology to uncover fraud and corruption.”

“So the idea that the government would say definitively this is North Korea already is a little shaky. And what they've provided as evidence is an IP address that they say is, which they haven't even disclosed the IP address. All they've said is that an IP addr…”

“If there's a critique of Silicon Valley that I at least somewhat agree with, it's we are a relatively insular community. We live in a special place and special time and, you know, socioeconomic kind of bubbles of where they don't usually like, but there's a li…”

“I am not breaking some, like, security clearance or classification rules to tell you this here, but there is no super secret government lab with, like, advanced AI way better than commercial industry. The government, the military, they are behind commercial in…”

“I do want to dispel the notion that the government is sitting there trying to trap, you know, an ICO project or a cryptocurrency project and saying, aha, we got you. That's just not the case. The fact of the matter is the government doesn't hurt for business w…”

“Stem cells is a great one where the US government went to really hold that back. They didn't hold back stem cell, like, development or research at all. They just made it very inconvenient for people in the United States, and a lot of people died and, you know,…”

“There was a faction within the US government led by the NSA that objected to the development of HTTPS.”

“To the extent that, that many companies are making compromises and accommodations to Open the Chinese market and expand their foothold in the Chinese market, doing things that quite frankly, in my judgment, advantage China in this competition, but then won't b…”

“The US government and the US dollar versus Bitcoin is as big a clash as like, you know, I don't know, Christian Muslim was during the crusades or something like that.”

“About a year ago, the government had to issue an RFQ for some of the parts on the B to not just to replace the parts, but because no one, you know, the guy that designed it or engineered it retired and they didn't have it documented anywhere. Like there's lite…”

“And quite honestly, it's like fifty-fifty right now, whether or not the government's going to basically bless a cartel of a handful of companies to basically control AI for the next 30 years.”

“What we know today is McCarthy actually underestimated the level of Soviet penetration in the U.S. Government. Just on the numbers, he underestimated it. And so his estimates, you know, topped out, I believe, in the 200, and it turned out, you know, the number…”

“A company doing new technology for space for aerospace, you know, there's by almost by definition, there are national security implications of what we do. So there is almost always you know, I think if you're doing things right, there's almost always going to …”

“The US government itself recently announcing its intent to triple nuclear power production by 20 50.”

“If we don't do that, you know, over the next five years, these monopolies are going to get much, much stronger. Probably some of them will be stronger than the US government itself.”

“The model that seems to work the best in the U S anyway, is the model we used in the space program which kind of created the chip industry, which was okay. If you can build this chip, then we will become a giant customer. And that's sort of what they did with …”

“And so basically the regime that, you know, the government is threatening to put in place right now is going to, you know, by using this limit, they're going to basically enshrine the two or three companies that they believe are the only companies that matter …”

“The guy who, you know, has the highest odds of fighting off the, you know, the Chinese and the U S auto market is of course, you know, Elon is being tortured to death by his own government.”

“So you have a relatively small cartel of these companies who sort of all say we won't do fixed price programs anymore. They won't do things on a fixed cost basis.”

“We've actually put export controls on GPUs before. I mean, like a perfect analog. We were like, oh, listen, you can do weapon simulation on these things. Like a PlayStation was the first to actually use the SGI. Remember that we're gonna export control that. L…”

“The CTO position within government came 30 years after it did private sector, right? And even later than that, after defense.”

“The US government launched barely over 200 last year.”

“Crypto, you know, became incredibly politicized, and the government, US government basically launched a full-on war against it, tried to kill it.”

“We've been kind of working with the US government to try and get the correct regulation.”

“I think the way they're structuring some of these is actually really clever, right? Like they basically, with one of these, this empty materials company, they basically guaranteed a minimum offtake and a price floor.”

“I think alongside that certain areas of the government where there's a lot of immature companies, they're going to spend the next year making eight bets and seeing how it plays out. And in certain other areas, I think in the next two years, what you're going t…”

“Number one, I think you need data, right? Like there's very little data on like what two, three levels down into the supply chain is actually on that bill of materials and what are the, you know, kind of critical components.”

“Google has definitely since Google slash Alphabet has reversed their position and now do work, ah, with the US government and the Defense Department.”

“The U.S. Government over the last I think it's the last decade, has spent close to, like, a hundred billion dollars on crop subsidies.”

“Google didn't want to bid on the contract. Now Google is a great partner, you know, and so I'd hope some of the newer companies would learn from what Google did, which is, you know, they didn't want to serve the government because that employee mob issues, but…”

“Satellite control network that is a common resource for US government where you know, every launch runs through satellite control network. It tracks missions across a really wide set of US government use cases ranging from, you know, GPS to NASA missions you k…”

“When we did the stimulus program, we found out that the government is very bad at getting money to people. I don't know, it's like, depending on the numbers you read, it's somewhere around four hundred and fifty billion dollars got stolen.”

“Are you gonna trust Google? Are you gonna trust Meta? Are you gonna trust the US government? I think you wanna trust the kind of mathematical game theoretic properties Of the blockchain. So I think that's going to be just a very, very important part of the inf…”

“The thing that's been surprising, though, is like how fast we've been catching up. And I think that that's been really kind of heartening from both The number of entrepreneurs that want to help, and then the willingness of the U.S. Government to say, hey, we'r…”

“If you were to break those rules, there is a 100% chance it's getting leaked to the press immediately. Like, there are no secrets in Washington.”

“For sure there were class, lots of classified aerospace programs over the years that, that would have had various kinds of cover stories or various kinds of, you know, or let's just say blankets of suppression of information, you know, kind of placed over them…”