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> The SEC's official position is the DAO guidance and the Howey Test. Ethereum itself seemingly fails the Howey test, so it will be interesting to see if they
by Alex3917 9y ago
> The SEC's official position is the DAO guidance and the Howey Test.
Ethereum itself seemingly fails the Howey test, so it will be interesting to see if they are all prosecuted.
- 1053r 9y agoPlease don't spread FUD. In the DAO guidance [1] you reference, the SEC explicitly calls Ethereum a virtual currency, and does not call it a security. "From April 30, 2016 through May 28, 2016, The DAO offered and sold approximately 1.15 billion DAO Tokens in exchange for a total of approximately 12 million Ether (“ETH”), a virtual currency used on the Ethereum Blockchain." They might change their mind on the matter, and expand their definition of virtual currency to be securities, but they went out of their way to publish a piece which references the word "Ethereum" 39 times, "Ether" 2 times, and "ETH" 15 times. None of those times do they refer to Ethereum as as security. [1] - https://www.sec.gov/litigation/investreport/34-81207.pdf https://www.sec.gov/litigation/investreport/34-81207.pdf
- Alex3917 9y agoSomething can be a currency and still be a security, they are largely orthogonal concepts. That's actually the entire point of the Howey test, which was established as part of a case to determine whether or not property that was classified as real estate could also be classified as a security.
- EGreg 9y agoThe Capital At Risk test seems to cover every crypto currency in existence. And it's used by many states.