and how does that help?

https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/fca-takes-first-steps-towards-crypto-regulation-20190123

it doesn't, but the government will always try to regulate shit

it sucks but x_x

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4099364-sec-regulate-bitcoin-friends

@Misomania please stop giving them ideas

yeah even the government couldnt remove CP encoded into an old bitcoin transaction. Their computers wouldnt be strong enough for bitcoin to be used within a year at which point therell be a hardfork

(more like many decades)

https://qz.com/1224093/the-sec-wants-to-regulate-bitcoin-and-other-cryptocurrencies/

goddamn it

will there ever be anything

truly decentralized

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/sec-chairman-cryptocurrencies-bitcoin-are-not-securities-most-icos-are/

at least this is good news somewhat^

sec will regulate icos

but not

bitcoin or similar cryptos themselves?

i dont think bitcoin had an ICO

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/06/sec-chairman-clayton-says-agency-wont-change-definition-of-a-security.html

so this is good

in any case they can regulate all they like

wont do one bit

there is noone they can hold accountable for noncompliance

damn 9 bill?

this was in june 2018

Yeah just dont have an ICO if thats such a big issue.

currently theyre considered commodities

yeah

thats not contradictory

ok so it fiuts under the current definition of security

an ICO != cryptocurrency

yeah

a token or digital asset it's called, used in a fundrasing process known as an ico is considered a security

like a stock

investment of money in a common enterprise, in which the investor expects profits primarily from others' efforsts

The Italian secret service has warned that people-smugglers in the Mediterranean may seek to engineer a mass drowning in order to garner Western sympathy and resume the flow of migration.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/01/24/italian-secret-service-people-smugglers-may-arrange-mass-drowning-for-public-sympathy/