Freedom Tech DC: After Clarity -- Lessons for AI Policy with @patrickjwitt and @Bayman11771 - Legislation can give digital assets more durable rules than agency action alone - AI agents and digital payments make a clear federal framework increasingly urgent - Educating Congress is cumulative: a legislative setback does not erase what lawmakers learned - Open-source developer protections safeguard privacy, autonomy and self-custody alongside innovation - Bitcoin reserve and crypto tax provisions could find a path through reconciliation, but the prospects remain uncertain (00:00) — Introduction (01:08) — What comes after the CLARITY setback? (02:17) — AI agents, payments and regulatory durability (03:56) — Lessons from educating Congress (06:54) — How AI companies engage with policymakers (08:54) — Open-source developers and civil liberties (11:47) — Reserve, crypto tax and reconciliation prospects