{"id":47981,"date":"2022-08-09T14:15:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T14:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/33711\/Crypto-And-The-US-Government-Are-Headed-For-A-Decisive-Showdown.html"},"modified":"2022-08-09T14:15:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T14:15:31","slug":"crypto-and-the-us-government-are-headed-for-a-decisive-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/crypto-and-the-us-government-are-headed-for-a-decisive-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto And The US Government Are Headed For A Decisive Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/showdown-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Crypto and the US government are headed for a decisive showdown\"><figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-credit\">Elena Lacey | Getty Images<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside id=\"social-left\" class=\"social-left\" aria-label=\"Read the comments or share this article\"> <a title=\"118 posters participating\" class=\"comment-count icon-comment-bubble-down\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2022\/08\/crypto-and-the-us-government-are-headed-for-a-decisive-showdown\/?comments=1\"> <\/p>\n<h4 class=\"comment-count-before\">reader comments<\/h4>\n<p> <span class=\"comment-count-number\">330<\/span> <span class=\"visually-hidden\"> with 118 posters participating<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<div class=\"share-links\">\n<h4>Share this story<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p> <!-- cache hit 536:single\/related:bbbb31147961112b42668afe5c2cbfc4 --><!-- empty --><\/p>\n<p>If you have paid casual attention to crypto news over the past few years, you probably have a sense that the crypto market is unregulated\u2014a tech-driven Wild West in which the rules of traditional finance do not apply.<\/p>\n<p>If you were Ishan Wahi, however, you would probably not have that sense.<\/p>\n<p>Wahi worked at Coinbase, a leading crypto exchange, where he had a view into which tokens the platform planned to list for trading\u2014an event that causes those assets to spike in value. According to the US Department of Justice, Wahi used that knowledge to buy those assets before the listings, then sell them for big profits. In July, the DOJ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdny\/pr\/three-charged-first-ever-cryptocurrency-insider-trading-tipping-scheme\">announced<\/a> that it had indicted Wahi, along with two associates, in what it billed as the \u201cfirst ever cryptocurrency insider trading tipping scheme.\u201d If convicted, the defendants could face decades in federal prison.<\/p>\n<p>On the same day as the DOJ announcement, the Securities and Exchange Commission made its own. It, too, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/news\/press-release\/2022-127\">filing a lawsuit<\/a> against the three men. Unlike the DOJ, however, the SEC can\u2019t bring criminal cases, only civil ones. And yet it\u2019s the SEC\u2019s civil lawsuit\u2014not the DOJ\u2019s criminal case\u2014that struck panic into the heart of the crypto industry. That\u2019s because the SEC accused Wahi not only of insider trading, but also of securities fraud, arguing that nine of the assets he traded count as securities.<\/p>\n<p>This may sound like a dry, technical distinction. In fact, whether a crypto asset should be classified as a security is a massive, possibly existential issue for the crypto industry. The Securities and Exchange Act of 1933 requires anyone who issues a security to register with the SEC, complying with extensive disclosure rules. If they don\u2019t, they can face devastating legal liability.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad_wrapper\" aria-label=\"In Content advertisement\"> <span class=\"ad_notice\">Advertisement <\/span> <\/aside>\n<p>Over the next few years, we\u2019ll find out just how many crypto entrepreneurs have exposed themselves to that legal risk. Gary Gensler, whom Joe Biden appointed to chair the SEC, has for years made clear that he believes most crypto assets qualify as securities. His agency is now putting that belief into practice. Apart from the insider trading lawsuit, the SEC is preparing to go to trial against Ripple, the company behind the popular XRP token. And it is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-07-26\/coinbase-faces-sec-investigation-over-cryptocurrency-listings?sref=YK080Hgh\">investigating<\/a> Coinbase itself for allegedly listing unregistered securities. That\u2019s on top of a class-action lawsuit against the company brought by private plaintiffs. If these cases succeed, the days of the crypto free-for-all could soon be over.<\/p>\n<p>To understand the fight over regulating crypto, it helps to start with the orange business.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image shortcode-img right full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/wired-logo.png\" width=\"218\" height=\"58\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Securities and Exchange Act of 1933, passed in the aftermath of the 1929 stock market crash, provides a long list of things that can count as securities, including an \u201cinvestment contract.\u201d But it never spells out what an investment contract is. In 1946, the US Supreme Court provided a definition. The case concerned a Florida business called the Howey Company. The company owned a big plot of citrus groves. To raise money, it began offering people the opportunity to buy portions of its land. Along with the land sale, most buyers signed a 10-year service contract. The Howey Company would keep control of the property and handle all the work cultivating and selling the fruit. In return, the buyers would get a cut of the company\u2019s profits. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad_wrapper\" aria-label=\"In Content advertisement\"> <span class=\"ad_notice\">Advertisement <\/span> <\/aside>\n<p>In the 1940s, the SEC sued the Howey Company, asserting that its supposed land sales were investment contracts and therefore unlicensed securities. The case went to the Supreme Court, which held in favor of the SEC. Just because the Howey Company didn\u2019t offer literal shares of stock, the court ruled, didn\u2019t mean it wasn\u2019t raising investment capital. The court explained that it would look at the \u201ceconomic reality\u201d of a business deal, rather than its technical form. It held that an investment contract exists whenever someone puts money into a project expecting the people running the project to turn that money into more money. That\u2019s what investing is, after all: Companies raise capital by convincing investors that they\u2019ll get paid back more than they put in.<\/p>\n<p>Applying this standard to the case, the court ruled that the Howey Company had offered investment contracts. The people who \u201cbought\u201d the parcels of land didn\u2019t really own the land. Most would never set foot on it. For all practical purposes, the company continued to own it. The economic reality of the situation was that the Howey Company was raising investment under the guise of selling property. \u201cThus,\u201d the court concluded, \u201call the elements of a profit-seeking business venture are present here. The investors provide the capital and share in the earnings and profits; the promoters manage, control, and operate the enterprise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ruling laid down the approach that the courts follow to this day, the so-called <em>Howey<\/em> test. It has four parts. Something counts as an investment contract if it is (1) an investment of money, (2) in a common enterprise, (3) with the expectation of profit, (4) to be derived from the efforts of others. The thrust is that you can\u2019t get around securities law because you don\u2019t use the words \u201cstock\u201d or \u201cshare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Which brings us to Ripple.<\/p>\n<p> READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/33711\/Crypto-And-The-US-Government-Are-Headed-For-A-Decisive-Showdown.html\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>READ MORE HERE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[9027],"class_list":["post-47981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packet-storm","tag-headlinegovernmentusacryptography"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Crypto And The US 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