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SHAME ON U.S. REGULATORS

Consider the following:

In 2017 SEC issued the DAO. Then 2017-19 there were 57 enforcement actions 🆚 crypto companies, involving ICOs (#KIK, #Telegram, etc).

In 2018 we got the Hinman Speech.

In 2019 the SEC issued its Framework for Digital assets.
Also in 2019, former Chairman Clayton publicly agreed with Hinman’s speech stating the token itself is NOT a security and that a token can, at first, start out or be issued as a security, but later transform so that subsequent sales of the token no longer meet the Howey test.
Yet, here we are FOUR years later, moving backwards regarding regulatory clarity. And for you crypto Critics that say Hinman and Clayton’s comments are immaterial b/c their statements were only personal opinions, I say hogwash (I actually say something else but I’m being polite).
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“INVESTMENT CONTRACT”

Is one of the most misunderstood legal terms in the law. The Howey Test must be the most misapplied legal test or doctrine on social media.

“Investment contract” is a legal term of art adopted from state law by Congress when it enacted the 1933 Act.
According to the Securities Act of 1933, the term ‘‘security’’ means:

“any note, stock, treasury stock, security future, security-based swap, bond, debenture, evidence of indebtedness, certificate of interest or participation in any profit-sharing agreement,
collateral-trust certificate, preorganization certificate or subscription, transferable share, investment contract, voting-trust certificate, certificate of de- posit for a security, fractional undivided interest in oil, gas, or other mineral rights, any put, call, straddle,
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WHO REVIEWED & HELPED WRITE THE HINMAN SPEECH?

Who was on the 63 emails that included a draft of the speech?

Where is Hinman’s public calendar?

Who purchased large quantities of #Ether between December 2017 to June 13, 2018?

$10k in #ETH ICO = a net worth more @GaryGensler👇
@ethereumJoseph received 9.5% of #ETH as a co-founder.

Everyone knows @VitalikButerin and Lubin held an ICO through crowdfunding which was without a doubt an unregistered securities offering.

Where was @SECGov?

Where is outrage from those that attack @Ripple & #XRP?
One River bet $1 billion on #BTC and #Ether in October 2020. Two months later on his last day at the @SECGov, Clayton directs the enforcement action against @Ripple and #XRP. Twelve weeks later, Clayton joins One River.

Clayton’s law firm represented Lubin and #Consensys.
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Good news @BBCNews But does this include sex offenders and offending paedophiles?
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-472565…
Like this convicted paedophile who continuously breached his SHPO by repeatedly visiting the children's section of a public library to become aroused by girls as young as two, and then masturbate in the toilets. Because they NEVER stop offending. walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-new…
Or this one who was jailed for six years in 1992 for rape and indecent assault & had previously been through a programme designed to 'treat' sex offenders, now caught trying to meet a 13 yr old girl walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-new…
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