102: Acceptance To Adoption

[upbeat music] Welcome in to This Week in Bitcoin, episode 102.

My name is Chris, chrislas.com, jupiterbroadcasting.com. It's the week of the Bitcoin 2026 conference in Las Vegas, and the vibe is very institutional, I guess, is a nice way to put it.

I have been watching hours and hours of talks, keynotes, presentations, live stream, chitter chatter filler, really just trying to look for some of the signal in all of this for you.

And at the same time, Washington seems to be treating custody and enforcement around Bitcoin and how they treat that a lot more formally, which I think is an interesting development.

Even if some of their bigger announcements, which we will cover, I think still should be labeled as claims rather than fact, it's still worth listening to, so let's get into it.