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JPMorgan lobbied hard to prevent consumers from earning interest on stablecoins, fearing deposit flight. They largely got what they asked for in the bill's current language. But the compromise still allows reward structures that work more like credit card points than bank accounts.
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Hackett raises the unavoidable elephant in the room: the president and his family have crypto interests, and critics argue the bill will enrich its most vocal supporters. Dixon's response is structured in three parts. First, he supports ethics rules for government officials across all financial assets, not just crypto. Second, the CLARITY Act itself adds significant new restrictions — lockup requirements, disclosure mandates — that apply to everyone, including officials. Third, and most striking: it would be the first bill in U.S. history to both regulate an industry and include specific ethics provisions for government officials within the same legislation. Ethics rules and industry regulation have always been handled separately. Coupling them sets a new precedent that Dixon finds concerning as a matter of legislative norms, even if he's sympathetic to the underlying concerns. Marc Andreessen adds the sharpest point: the bill's crypto ethics controls are actually stricter than what currently governs government officials' stock trading — which should give critics pause about where the real gaps in ethics regulation lie.
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