Sacks: Community bank fears of stablecoin disruption are wildly overblown
David Sacks · Trump vs Powell, Solving the Debt Crisis, The $10T AGI Prize, GENIUS Act Becomes Law · Jul 19, 2025 · at 1:04:47
David Sacks addresses legislative concessions made to community banks prohibiting interest yield on stablecoins in US crypto legislation.
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“Well, just to clarify one point on that, one of the concessions that was made to community banks is not to have an interest feature because the community banks were worried that this new stablecoin industry would put them out of business. I think that that fear was wildly overblown on their part. I don't think that's what's going to happen. Remotely.”
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