Re:US SEC sues Coinbase, one day after suing Binance
by yieldcrv on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @04:49PM
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> Why would a sneaker fall under the terms they're using to define a security
because the sneaker trade market focuses on sneakers that are released with artificial scarcity, where many participants in that market buy with an investment of money, with a reliance on the issuer and others to keep them scarce and valuable and promote them, with an expectation of profit.
the SEC is basically saying if any random person has an expectation of profit guiding their purchase at any time, the entire asset and all transactions is a security and everyone that is trading it needs to be a registered broker dealer or registered promoter, and then even if they could be registered they would not be allowed to trade unregistered securities, or even registered esoteric securities like shoes and digital commodity units because the Self Regulatory Organizations are too permissioned for shares and bonds exclusively.
> if not every digital token does?
that's the point. there is either a way where a digital asset is exclusively a commodity, or there isn't at all and every corporate controlled unnatural commodity inherits the same regulatory framework that the SEC is trying to impose on digital assets and the entire trading ecosystem.
because the sneaker trade market focuses on sneakers that are released with artificial scarcity, where many participants in that market buy with an investment of money, with a reliance on the issuer and others to keep them scarce and valuable and promote them, with an expectation of profit.
the SEC is basically saying if any random person has an expectation of profit guiding their purchase at any time, the entire asset and all transactions is a security and everyone that is trading it needs to be a registered broker dealer or registered promoter, and then even if they could be registered they would not be allowed to trade unregistered securities, or even registered esoteric securities like shoes and digital commodity units because the Self Regulatory Organizations are too permissioned for shares and bonds exclusively.
> if not every digital token does?
that's the point. there is either a way where a digital asset is exclusively a commodity, or there isn't at all and every corporate controlled unnatural commodity inherits the same regulatory framework that the SEC is trying to impose on digital assets and the entire trading ecosystem.