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No protests at all....

If bitcoin is not a security, how could someone also create a non-security token like bitcoin? This seems very unclear

Yes. getting no search results only periphery data

well the CFTC says that it is a commodity https://decrypt.co/123032/cftc-chair-says-ethereum-is-a-comm... and in 2018 an SEC commissioner gave a speech in which he said eth was not…

The CFTC disagrees with that stance https://decrypt.co/123032/cftc-chair-says-ethereum-is-a-comm...

it seems that they disagree on ethereum https://decrypt.co/123032/cftc-chair-says-ethereum-is-a-comm...

it might just mean focusing more outside of the US. they just announced expanding into Brazil yesterday for example.

its already the case with el salvador and bitcoin. bitcoin wasn't really under question though for being a security so would need someone to make a smaller token legal tender

so having another country declare a crypto as legal tender makes it no longer a security in the US?

they have not been registered with the SEC. both are leaderless and therefore lack the ability to register with the SEC

libertarians wouldn't have a federal reserve raising interest rates at such a high pace though.

Most layer 2s do right now. That is not how they are meant to be though. A true layer is completely non centralized. That is the whole point of the fraud proofs. The ideal end stat…

It can be made on site where it is going to be used. Generally combined with a manufacturing plant

Fitting day for this to be posted given this article https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64373950 "Japan's prime minister says his country is on the brink of not being able to func…

To be clear none of this is defi, its all just traditional borrowing and lending. Aave pays 3% on USDT right now and lenders there are doing fine in defi

Ya basically people will feel they are getting a pay cut, and since the higher you go in the company the larger percent of your salary is from RSUs those are the people most likely…

Cost of employees has gone up as stocks drop due to such high RSU compensation. Stock is 40% off its highs which means they have to make up that difference in either cash or more s…

ya I don't think they were a ponzi themselves but they lost money to both 3 arrows capital and in the ftx collapse. https://decrypt.co/114778/genesis-suspending-client-withdraw... …

only their earn product customers

That is funny cause as a kid in the 90s getting a matchbox instead of a hotwheels was a real downer. They were just worse quality.

there are over 12,000 OTC stock tickers, these are mostly scams. I know Schwab allows OTC trading. The NYSE+Nasdaq combined also have around 12,000 tickers. So 50% of the things av…

your definition includes stocks. I suppose you might be right that stocks are a ponzi

Its a solved problem in crypto too. Shapeshift allowed for swapping of funds while always having control of the keys, but it was given hell by regulators. If it were allowed to gro…

Their payment attempt was stifled by regulators though. I wonder where they would be at if they had launched Diem instead of shutting that down

With tBTC (v2 coming very soon), you can move you bitcoin to the ethereum chain and trade it/use all defi there and then move it back all trustlessly. So in a way it makes ethereum…