What Fast Times at Ridgemont High can teach us about cryptocurrency regulation

Of all the things to cross one’s mind when thinking of the phrase “Congressional testimony”, the 1982 teen coming-of-age flick Fast Times at Ridgemont High most likely isn’t near the top of the list. It boasts a killer New Wave soundtrack and a snapshot of Southern California life as portrayed by an ensemble cast that largely went on to become marquee celebrities in their own right. In one particularly memorable scene, Sean Penn, the actor behind slacker surfer-par-excellence Jeff Spicoli, engages in a lively discussion with his history teacher over the US Revolutionary War, namely the lack of a codified legal framework post-British rule. Spicoli muses on the Founding Fathers’ thought process in drafting the Constitution: “If we don’t get some cool rules ourselves — pronto — we’ll just be bogus too!”

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