Sure, that all sounds nice and sensible.  But I'm thinking, at this point, given how diametrically opposed our goals are to that of the traditional banking system, the hope for any legislation we would deem favourable is pretty much a pipe-dream now, regardless of how many genuine BTC advocates contact their senator.  And the hope for no regulation at all just sounds like a joke with a lousy punchline.  It's just not realistic in my view.  Regulation is inevitable and it's probably going to suck.  So I'm convinced the best we can hope for is that morons like Jeremy Allaire fill their heads with nonsense and they at least regulate in areas that aren't particularly harmful to us in the short term because they haven't been given sufficient insight into what we're doing with crypto, compared to what fiat-loving posers like Allaire are attempting, but crucially failing, to to do with crypto.  It's clear Allaire believes that creating gatekeepers is somehow a viable business model in crypto and that's precisely why he and his crappy companies keep failing.  He's almost certainly going to send them on a wild goose chase for a few years while they attempt to introduce middlemen where they have no power to insert them, giving us more time to increase the robustness and capacity of our network.