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Drew Hinkes

@propelforward
8 posts
2025-03-21
New SEC Guidance clarifies that POW mining & some pooled mining are not securities. This is great....but its maybe not the big story. This guidance ALSO elaborates on a potential new taxonomy to be applied to digital assets & maybe some radical changes to the securities laws /1
2025-03-21 View on X
CoinDesk

The US SEC says proof-of-work crypto mining doesn't trigger federal securities laws and mining operators do not need to register their transactions with the SEC

In a staff statement published Thursday, the SEC said that both solo mining and mining pool operations would fail the first prong of the Howey Test.

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2024-01-11
Always read @HesterPeirce's statements on any commission action. Holy Moly. https://sec.gov/... [image]
2024-01-11 View on X
Reuters

The US SEC approves spot bitcoin ETFs from BlackRock, Grayscale, ARK 21Shares, Bitwise, WisdomTree, Fidelity, VanEck, Invesco, Valkyrie, Hashdex, and Franklin

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has approved 11 spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds, including those of Grayscale …

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2023-10-20
included in the list are (here we go...): (1) pooling or aggregating CVC from multiple persons, wallets, addresses, or accounts. This would appear to apply to every DeFi protocol that pools assets from third parties. hm. /3
2023-10-20 View on X
CoinDesk

The US Treasury's FinCEN proposes labeling international crypto mixing as a “primary money laundering concern”, citing its use by Hamas and other illicit actors

Under pressure to address reports that Hamas and other terrorist groups are partially funded with crypto …

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note- this applies to covered financial institutions; The definition of CFI does not include every DeFi protocol BUT could easily be expanded by the allegation that a protocol is an unlicensed broker or dealer, FCM, Introducting broker, VASP or MSB which would trigger obligations
2023-10-20 View on X
CoinDesk

The US Treasury's FinCEN proposes labeling international crypto mixing as a “primary money laundering concern”, citing its use by Hamas and other illicit actors

Under pressure to address reports that Hamas and other terrorist groups are partially funded with crypto …

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#FinCEN #NPRM on #CVC #Mixing is a lot to take in, but, wow, that definition of “mixing” would include almost all #DeFi. Time to #thread /1 [image]
2023-10-20 View on X
CoinDesk

The US Treasury's FinCEN proposes labeling international crypto mixing as a “primary money laundering concern”, citing its use by Hamas and other illicit actors

Under pressure to address reports that Hamas and other terrorist groups are partially funded with crypto …

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2022-10-04
While it's notable that @KimKardashian settled with the #SEC, it's more interesting to see that the consent order (once again) includes conclusory allegations that the token at issue was a security without the SEC bringing a claim vs the issuer or giving the issuer /1
2022-10-04 View on X
CNBC

Kim Kardashian will pay the SEC $1.26M for not reporting a $250K payment to promote EthereumMax on Instagram and won't push crypto securities for three years

Mike Calia / CNBC :

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an opportunity to dispute the conclusions found in the consent order. While the consent order doesn't determine the the issue & has no precedential effect against the issuer, it maintains the pattern of “indirect enforcement” we saw with Wahi.
2022-10-04 View on X
CNBC

Kim Kardashian will pay the SEC $1.26M for not reporting a $250K payment to promote EthereumMax on Instagram and won't push crypto securities for three years

Mike Calia / CNBC :

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2020-11-25
#SEC proposed temp rule allow “gig” workers on “platforms” like @Uber @lyft etc. to receive shares (subject to % limits (no more than 15% of annual compensation), & dollar limits (no more than $75,000 in three years)). HUGE https://sec.gov/... https://twitter.com/...
2020-11-25 View on X
Axios

SEC proposes a five-year pilot program to let gig companies like Uber and Lyft issue equity to workers; equity can't be more than 15% of a worker's earning/year

Joint Statement on the Proposal to Facilitate Non-Cash Compensation for Certain Gig Workers Paul Kiernan / Wall Street Journal : Gig Workers Could Be Paid Partially in Stock Under ...

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