Peter Tchir on creating US crypto privateers to crack down North Korea and Iran
"The one thing that does come up in our conversations, and one guy, Chris Perkins, has been a big fan of this, is trying to create some sort of crypto privateer, where we can really go after the countries who are using cryptocurrencies nefariously."
"So we can go after North Korea. We can go after Iran, and really clean that up. I think there have been some signs that this administration is moving towards that, some way that we can harness the resources of smart American companies to go after this."
"From a national security standpoint, I don't see it as a big part of our conversation. When we talk to our AI cyber people, they do see it as part of it, because they're focused on agentic AI."
"I do think there's this increased desire to figure out a way for the US to crack down on the bad actors in the crypto space, and eliminate that, which would be good longer term."
"I do think it fits well with Trump. He would like to capture some of that Bitcoin and keep some of it for the US Treasury."