Forty-eight U.S. lawmakers have sent a letter to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler asking him to clarify whether ether is a security. “The negative repercussions of the SEC implicitly or directly classifying ETH as a digital asset security will cascade throughout the digital asset marketplace both in the short and long […]
U.S. Senate candidate John Deaton has called for the resignation of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler. “Under Gensler, the SEC has forgotten, or intentionally abandoned, its primary mission in protecting innocent investors,” he stressed. Deaton Calls for Gensler’s Resignation John Deaton, a U.S. Senate candidate running against incumbent U.S. Senator Elizabeth […]
At a recent gathering at the Columbia Law School Conference, Gary Gensler, the chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, addressed the assembly on the topic of the digital currency landscape. His discourse highlighted the “benefits of mandatory disclosure,” with Gensler humorously alleging that certain “participants in crypto securities markets that seek to avoid […]
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler has reiterated that the crypto industry is filled with instances of abuse and fraud, citing a significant number of bankruptcies in recent years. He also cautioned investors in spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that these products are based on a “highly speculative volatile underlying asset: bitcoin.” […]
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler has cautioned about crypto investing. “This is a highly speculative asset class. One could just look at the volatility of bitcoin in the last few days,” he stressed, warning that thousands of crypto tokens may be securities. Gary Gensler’s Crypto Investment Warning The chairman of the […]