House Agricultural Committee Hearing (7/18/18): “Cryptocurrencies: Oversight of New Assets in the Digital Age”
Below is a rough auto-transcript of a hearing held last week entitled “Cryptocurrencies: Oversight of New Assets in the Digital Age” (video available at link). The witnesses were: Here are a few “pull quotes” and exchanges of interest (this is by no means exhaustive): Again, we have not yet gone through the hearing record exhaustively. However, the […]
Doubts Emerge Regarding SEC Director Hinman’s “Decentralization” Token Security-Criteria
On June 14th, 2018, at the Yahoo! Finance All Markets Summit, the SEC’s Director of the Corporate Finance Division, William Hinman, made a “speech heard ’round the world” — best known for its bombshell conclusion that Ether coin (or “ETH”, of the Ethereum blockchain network) should not be considered a security [1]. While this sort of […]
