Re:Regulating Crypto: How we move forward as an industry fro...
by britneybitch on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @08:59AM
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Bitcoin is not a security though. Both the CFTC and SEC have said so publicly:
https://bitcoinist.com/cftc-chair-only-bitcoin-is-a-commodit...
https://decrypt.co/103926/sec-chair-gensler-bitcoin-not-secu...
Re:Regulating Crypto: How we move forward as an industry fro...
by gremlinsinc on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @09:19AM
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maybe it should be?
on SoFi for example the UI/UX for trading stocks and ETFs is the same flow for trading crypto and people trade it like it is one. Else, why hodl at all if it's not in hopes it'll go up in value?
Disclosure of ownership in crypto really should be around a dollar threshold, not percentage and that mostly defeats the purpose of anonymity. I think financial institutions (banks, exchanges, wall st.) should have to disclose holdings in crypto for both crypto trader awareness but also for their customers in other business sectors awareness.
There should also be strict rules preventing operating an exchange/market maker and any sort of investment firm (hedge fund, etc.) by any degrees of separation. That means they can have no relationships at all organizationally (parent/grandparent company owns both type of thing). Any transactions between exchanges and funds of that sort should 100% be reported and tracked. I think it can be anonymously tracked for some period of time but must be disclosed to an independent regulating organization.