Robin Weisman

Board Member & Co-founder, Coin Center · 1 appearance on the record.

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Alongside Jerry Brito, she co-founded the cryptocurrency think tank and advocacy group Coin Center in 2014, serving as its longtime Senior Policy Counsel. Before entering crypto policy, she served as Director of Government Relations at NASDAQ and as counsel in the public law practice of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.

6statements → 6claims → 4claims resolved → 75%fully supported → 3.83/5average certainty → 1.67/5average debate potential → 1said about them ↓

3 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 6 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

6 assertions · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Robin argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Weisman: CFTC ruled Bitcoin is a commodity under its jurisdiction
“And it's been, one of their rulings said that Bitcoin is a commodity, so it falls under their jurisdiction.”
Robin Weisman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 26:12 a16z Podcast | The Regulatory Landscape for Crypto

How they sound: speaking style how? →

245 words/min while actually speaking · 1.3 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Robin Weisman: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to 2,254 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Robin Weisman is the aired feed, and an editor cleaned that audio before release. Some of the hesitation was cut before we ever heard it, so read these as floors: the true rates are at least this high. These are measurements of speaking style, not scores. How it's measured →

Everything Robin Weisman said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Weisman: Tokens on fully decentralized networks are likely not securities
“If you have a token that's operating on a fully decentralized network, that's probably clearly not. A security.”
Robin Weisman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:16 a16z Podcast | The Regulatory Landscape for Crypto
Assertion Supported
Weisman: CFTC ruled Bitcoin is a commodity under its jurisdiction
“And it's been, one of their rulings said that Bitcoin is a commodity, so it falls under their jurisdiction.”
Robin Weisman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 26:12 a16z Podcast | The Regulatory Landscape for Crypto
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Weisman: Crypto tech is unregulated, but financial applications face existing laws
“The underlying technology is not regulated, and it would be very difficult to regulate, but when you have applications of the technology, some of which we've heard about earlier today, when those applications cross into an area where there is an existing set o…”
Robin Weisman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:54 a16z Podcast | The Regulatory Landscape for Crypto
Assertion Supported
Weisman: IRS classifies cryptocurrency as property, not currency
“The IRS designated cryptocurrency as property and not currency.”
Robin Weisman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:11 a16z Podcast | The Regulatory Landscape for Crypto
Assertion Supported
Weisman: Coinbase led early crypto companies in highlighting legal compliance
“I think we're beginning to see in a lot of areas, and early on Coinbase was a leader in this, really priding themselves on the fact that they do comply with the laws, like they have a selling point.”
Robin Weisman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 30:52 a16z Podcast | The Regulatory Landscape for Crypto
Assertion Partly supported
Weisman: Money transmitters must secure licenses across every US state
“States have money transmission licensing, and if you want to be a money transmitter, you have to obtain a license in every jurisdiction in the United States”
Robin Weisman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 22:40 a16z Podcast | The Regulatory Landscape for Crypto

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
a16z Podcast | The Regulatory Landscape for Crypto Jan 2, 2019 11m
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