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Re:SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading for everything except ... by mtgentry on Monday July 31, 2023 @01:41AM (#36939172)
Hate to take the SEC’s side, but once Coinbase started trading DOGE, they lost the moral high ground.
Re:SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading for everything except ... by Vervious on Monday July 31, 2023 @01:50AM (#36939212)
Well, in a libertarian world, the moral high ground is that we should be able to trade anything -- who is the SEC to tell us what we can't trade? It's almost like freedom of speech.

Plus, I don't think consumers should be protected from dogecoin --- no layman in their right mind invests in doge with the expectation of profit (from common enterprise). Bitcoin is more of a security than doge will ever be.

Re:SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading for everything except ... by CPLX on Monday July 31, 2023 @03:41AM (#36939768)
For the most part the SEC doesn’t tell you what you can and can’t trade.

It does however have laws around registration of the security, who can and can’t purchase it under a given registration, disclosure rules, conflict of interest rules, and so on.

Re:SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading for everything except ... by Vervious on Monday July 31, 2023 @12:03PM (#36944692)
> "It does however have laws around registration of the security"

This sounds a lot like the SEC dictating what can and can't be traded in the modern day. We can't trade something if there isn't an exchange for it.

Re:SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading for everything except ... by pavlov on Monday July 31, 2023 @04:05AM (#36939902)
> “no layman in their right mind invests in doge with the expectation of profit (from common enterprise)”

Influencers pumping the coin on Twitter is a common enterprise. You don’t think people bought DOGE because they hoped those influencers would continue what they were doing?

Re:SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading for everything except ... by Vervious on Monday July 31, 2023 @12:00PM (#36944646)
I mean, everyone hyping up kale as a supergreen on their social media doesn't make Kale --- the vegetable --- a security. Likewise, people shill GOLD on twitter all the time. Is gold a security?

If kale and gold are securities under the current interpretation of the howey test, then the howey test needs to be rewritten.

Re:SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading for everything except ... by iraqmtpizza on Monday July 31, 2023 @01:53AM (#36939232)
It's immoral to trade in joke currencies? Lol you could have picked any obvious swindle promising to revolutionize finance and announcing fake partnerships with Microsoft or Walmart. At least pick an unregistered security or something.
Re:SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading for everything except ... by redox99 on Monday July 31, 2023 @01:59AM (#36939266)
Why? There is no way DOGE passes the Howey test. It might be the least "security" crypto of them all.
Re:SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading for everything except ... by EgregiousCube on Monday July 31, 2023 @02:02AM (#36939287)
I think you're probably making a joke about how DOGE is funny, and it is, but if you're not, I'm curious what your reasoning is.
Re:SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading for everything except ... by gmerc on Monday July 31, 2023 @02:57AM (#36939551)
Why don’t you quote the creator of DOGE on the topic.
Re:SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading for everything except ... by justinzollars on Monday July 31, 2023 @03:03AM (#36939579)
I also rely on congenital, pathological, enthusiastic liars aka politicians to decide what is moral to trade! Thankfully they have our back and have our best interest in mind.