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Re:Bitcoin Visa debit cards are cancelled by DennisP on Friday January 05, 2018 @11:40AM (#16079641)
The SEC has said they consider some cryptos securities. They've been pretty reasonable about it so far.
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Re:Bitcoin Visa debit cards are cancelled by rspeer on Friday January 05, 2018 @12:52PM (#16080189)
Yes. For example, they've said that you could use a blockchain to keep track of book borrowing in a book club, where people expect to use the blockchain to get books and not to get rich.

I do think this is pretty reasonable, but it sounds like you meant something else.

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Re:Bitcoin Visa debit cards are cancelled by DennisP on Friday January 05, 2018 @05:13PM (#16082216)
In addition to those sorts of uses I specifically mean "currency," since in their Dec. 11 statement the SEC says "there are cryptocurrencies that do not appear to be securities."

https://www.sec.gov/news/public-statement/statement-clayton-...

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