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Connor Brown

Connor Brown

Bitcoin policy expert and attorney; Head of Strategy and Executive Director at the Bitcoin Policy Institute, formerly Counsel to Senator Cynthia Lummis on Bitcoin and AI policy.

Sep 14, 2026

35:33
Um, but what is BPI working on, uh, as that trend continues to develop and those concerns continue to rise?
35:40
Yeah.
35:40
I, we've been working on quite a bit in this.
35:42
And, um, you know, it's really given us, um, a- you know, a renewed sense of purpose in some ways at, at the organization of, uh, when, when we started BPI in 2021, um, Bitcoin's future was uncertain.
35:55
There's been an incredible amount of progress on this, um, from a legislative and a political front, and I think that, uh, we're in a much better position than where we were.
36:04
Open source AI, the use of AI tools for cyber defenders is, uh, in, in sort of new uncharted territory, and there are all sorts of different proposals that are being, uh, you know, lofted around.
36:15
And, uh, you know, we're looking at this as part and parcel of the story of Bitcoin.
38:23
So what do you make of the calls over the weekend from Elon Musk, Dario, Sam Altman? Do you think that's them trying to basically pull up the ladder behind them and, and form some sort of regulatory moat? Do you think that it might be well-intentioned, but maybe, uh, misguided?

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