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I wondered what he thought was so special about bitcoin. From https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/02/gary-gensler-on-meeting-with-sbf-and-his-crypto-crackdown
by mkl 4y ago
I wondered what he thought was so special about bitcoin. From https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/02/gary-gensler-on-meeting-with-sbf-and-his-crypto-crackdown.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/02/gary-gensler-on-meet...:
> “Everything other than bitcoin,” Gensler told me, “you can find a website, you can find a group of entrepreneurs, they might set up their legal entities in a tax haven offshore, they might have a foundation, they might lawyer it up to try to arbitrage and make it hard jurisdictionally or so forth.” In other words, there are people behind these cryptocurrencies using a variety of complex and legally opaque mechanisms, but at the most basic level, they are trying to promote their tokens and entice investors. (Bitcoin, because of its unique history and creation story, is fundamentally different from other crypto projects in this respect.)
- rocqua 4y agoI imagine Monero might similarly not count as a security? The complete lack of scripting helps that argument at least. And the raison d'etre isn't "make money" but "privacy so good even the police can't track you". Not a legally nice raison d'etre but not something that passes the Howey test either.