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2/5 “We’re coupling that data in AIs with big simulations calculating things out from first principles. That’s a type of recipe that AI looks really good at,” he said on the @scsp.bsky.social podcast, #NatSecTech, as a guest with the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Director, Steven Crowley.
March 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
dmnd.me
I mean look at this shit
Crypto wants all banks to be directed to bank "all legal businesses", by which they mean crypto companies and crypto founders. They will want an end to banks having discretion in onboarding clients to "vanilla" deposit products, first. They will claim they want this pretty much across the board; their exception will be e.g. Hamas. You get a corporate checking account, you get a corporate checking account, everybody gets a corporate checking account. Having achieved this for low-risk vanilla products, they will want sharply less resistance for e.g. high velocity facilitation of funds flows by financial services firms, as long as those financial services firms say the usual things about playing ball, even if those financial services firms are crypto native. Their most immediate concern is exchanges, but they also want less resistance to novel products and use cases. Crypto wants their bank back. They don't care what the name on the door is, but they want a bank which can do instantaneous book transfers and will accept basically all comers. Not Hamas, no, but if you would not onboard an entity controlled by CZ, Justin Sun, or someone understood to be Tether's new best friend, you do not understand the assignment. They want it to ask the minimum number of questions required to continue servicing high volumes compliantly in the United States, primarily. Their secondary priority will be serving as wide a footprint as can be reached without endangering the business within the United States. The U.S. is where the money is and they know this. Crypto, nominally, would be happy with changes to U.S. financial plumbing that allowed you to stitch a SEN-equivalent product out of other banks. But they think they'll probably need a bank, and they think that bank will probably not be their bank if they are just a quickly growing startup business within a ginormous bank. No, they want a bank with 100%-or-as-close-as-makes-no-difference crypto deposit concentration, which will cater assiduously to their needs, and which will fight the good fight if they ever need it to. (Continued in next alt image text) (Continued from previous image alt text) Crypto will compromise on (read: sacrifice the chance of directly doing business with firms or individuals from) Russia, without notable complaint. When the conversation turns to China... well, you know, a lot of financial innovation was forced to flee to... many countries in East Asia, including some of our truest friends, under the previous regime. It would be a shame if you sacrificed American competitiveness and national security by not inviting those dollars back to where we can see them. Crypto will be very in favor of U.S. national interests vis China, and some crypto investors have any number of proposals on how NatSecTech will help close the technical capabilities gap on e.g. manufacturing drone components. They have a number of portfolio companies to introduce you to, Washington, and plan to have more shortly. If you are a regulator and don't want crypto to have a bank, they want you to be promoted to private citizen as early as possible. And they want to make it very, very, very clear to junior staff that the same awaits them if they get out of line.
December 11, 2024 at 10:42 PM
julesgeorge.bsky.social
I am delighted to be awarded the ‘Grand Strategy in the Age of AI’ fellowship from the International Strategy Forum - Schmidt Futures for my book project on the intersection of emerging technologies and geopolitics! #InternationalSecurity #AI #Cyber #Robotics #NatSecTech #IR 👩🏾‍💻
October 16, 2023 at 2:03 PM