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…But I think... And then things around like creating also social fairness and transparency because of all the questions that we asked, if people are basically trading on politics, let's have all the trade data be as public as possible so anyone can audit it, anyone can see it, which is a good thing. You don't, now you don't know, imagine a poll where you can check every single person that basically got, the general public can check who was polled and what the sample was like. And then anything around customer protection. And because that is important long term in the sense that when you build a consumer product and it goes mainstream, there is a massive burden on the other companies to educate. And you've seen it over and over. And in our case, you want to make sure that people know what they're getting into. They're not overextending themselves in terms of how much they're sort of trading. They're not getting into an area of discomfort. And how do you, we can do as much as we can do on the marketing and on the product side, but like we need policymakers and regulators' help to basically make it an industry standard, but also help us elevate ours. And by the way, we're pro that. I think that like even the classic retail brokerages should also be adopting a lot of these customer protections that we're talking about that they don't. I think that every retail trading platform should be taking a lot of these steps. Yeah, I mean, that's our general view, and we hope that this is sort of the direction that things take. Because there's kind of... You can have a variety of views. And some people believe that any type of speculation should be banned, whether it's in the stock market or crypto or prediction market. We don't believe that. We think that would be a bad outcome for all the reasons, because there's a lot of upside to having liquid markets and a variety of different things. But also because if you ban it, you're actually heightening the risks that you're trying to prevent because now that activity is going offshore where you cannot monitor it or police it or do anything to protect it.…

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