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Coinbase Policy Chief Shirzad Squares Off With SEC Enforcement Director Grewal

A sneak peek at the looming crypto regulation prize fight between the U.S. securities watchdog and largest domestic crypto exchange highlights that everyone is talking past each other.

SEC Director of Enforcement Gurbir S. Grewal appears at a policy forum on July 16, 2023 in Manhattan, sponsored by Rutgers Law School and Lowenstein Sandler LLP. (Nik De/CoinDesk)

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Soft Science Economics Struggles With Hard Money Bitcoin

The Federal Reserve is talking a pause on raising interest rates to reflect on the impact of its aggressive inflation fighting strategy.

The Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C. (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)

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Gary Gensler’s Catch-22 Vision of ‘Regulated’ Crypto Brokers

The SEC-registered trading platform Prometheum pitched the House on Gary Gensler's vision. But skeptical legislators highlighted that the platform won't offer major assets – including bitcoin.

Prometheum founder and co-CEO Aaron Kaplan went on CoinDesk TV to discuss is Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) broker-dealer license approval. (CoinDesk)

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Ripple Does Not Care Whether XRP Is 'Sufficiently Decentralized'

Common interpretations of the so-called Hinman document dump misunderstand Ripple’s legal strategy.

Brad Garlinghouse, Ripple CEO, speaks at Davos 2020. (CoinDesk)

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The New Crypto Bill Gary Gensler Doesn’t Want You to Know About

U.S. law doesn't let appointed regulators override elected official. But the SEC head may be doing exactly that.

America is still a democracy. Technically, at least. (Andy Morffew, Flickr/CC)

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Can Binance Survive the SEC's Charges?

Don’t bet against someone with eight million Twitter followers who built by far the largest crypto exchange.

Changpeng Zhao ,CEO of Binance, at Consensus Singapore 2018 (CoinDesk)

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The SEC Is Fighting the Last War

SEC chair Gary Gensler wants you to think Coinbase and Binance are the same as FTX and Celsius. They’re not.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, on Capitol Hill, September 15, 2022 in Washington, DC.  (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

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Are Centralized Exchanges in the U.S. Doomed?

With the SEC’s Binance and Coinbase lawsuits, the agency is signaling it really is now or never to “come into compliance.”

SEC Chair Gary Gensler (CoinDesk screen grab from video)

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Why Elizabeth Warren Is Wrong About Crypto and the Fentanyl Epidemic

Chainalysis and Elliptic have found that crypto is useful for crime, but that’s hardly an argument for banning it.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has been a longtime crypto critic. (Gage Skidmore)

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