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- 0:05Speaker 1: The Crypto Task Force had a round table today. We're
- 0:08Speaker 1: going to break it down for you. Don't want to
- 0:09Speaker 1: miss this one. It is going to tell you a
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- 0:35Speaker 1: go over to a couple of things I want to
- 0:37Speaker 1: hit on the spring sprint toward crypto clarity. This was
- 0:40Speaker 1: the alignment of these hearings, meetings, all the stuff that
- 0:44Speaker 1: is being really championed by the SEC. We were concerned
- 0:48Speaker 1: about some people that were going to be on this
- 0:51Speaker 1: task force, and of course the big one that everybody
- 0:54Speaker 1: had a question on was John reed Stark because as
- 0:57Speaker 1: we all know, John reek Stark was the guy that
- 1:00Speaker 1: it was pretty much the person that was against crypto
- 1:04Speaker 1: saying it's useless all that stuff, and I've got some
- 1:06Speaker 1: clips coming to that because this is important in how
- 1:09Speaker 1: this may play out for crypto clarity out of the SEC.
- 1:12Speaker 1: I want to go to this first clip because this
- 1:14Speaker 1: is Hester Pearce talking about how this will work.
- 1:17Speaker 2: Take a look.
- 1:18Speaker 3: Spring signifies new beginnings, and we have a new beginning here,
- 1:21Speaker 3: a restart of the Commission's approach to crypto regulation, and
- 1:25Speaker 3: staff have responded with palpable enthusiasm. This regulation rests on
- 1:29Speaker 3: a well built edifice of law. At the foundation of
- 1:32Speaker 3: that structure is the definition of security. We cannot poke
- 1:36Speaker 3: holes in the foundation that's ed. I understand there's a
- 1:39Speaker 3: view that current law is not working for crypto.
- 1:42Speaker 1: They got to remember Crenshaw. That was the second lady
- 1:45Speaker 1: that was speaking there is she's been kind of on
- 1:48Speaker 1: the anti side of this. Once a Gensler has been out.
- 1:51Speaker 1: Crenshaw doesn't really have a landing place because now it
- 1:53Speaker 1: is very pro crypto SEC at the current status, especially
- 1:58Speaker 1: with Hester Pierce leading the task force. All right, so
- 2:00Speaker 1: I want to jump over to this clip real quick.
- 2:02Speaker 1: This is John read Stark, and this is a good
- 2:04Speaker 1: one because it will give you an analysis on his position.
- 2:08Speaker 1: I think a lot of people understand it, but the
- 2:10Speaker 1: craziness of his position take a look.
- 2:13Speaker 4: I don't see it as something you can tell the courts,
- 2:15Speaker 4: because the courts have already spoken. We have many, many courts.
- 2:19Speaker 4: All of these crypto firms. They went for this sort
- 2:21Speaker 4: of delay, delay, delay, and they hired the best law
- 2:24Speaker 4: firms in the world, and they lost just about I
- 2:27Speaker 4: would argue every single time, all because of Howie this
- 2:30Speaker 4: law has been decided.
- 2:32Speaker 5: The judge and the finance opinion kind of chastised the
- 2:35Speaker 5: staff about this, where they had flipped up between what
- 2:38Speaker 5: exactly was the investment contract. You know, I have to
- 2:40Speaker 5: to disagree with Rodrigo's disagreement with with John, you know,
- 2:45Speaker 5: and and you know in over you know, hundreds of
- 2:47Speaker 5: cases across you know, not just digital assets icos, but even.
- 2:50Speaker 2: NFTs secondary transactions.
- 2:53Speaker 5: When you look at Ripple and you look.
- 2:56Speaker 6: Yeah, if we could just not talk about any specific cases,
- 2:58Speaker 6: that'd be great.
- 2:59Speaker 2: Sorry, apologies with it.
- 3:00Speaker 6: They have not won a single case that applies Howie
- 3:03Speaker 6: to secondary transactions. They've only won on motions to dismiss.
- 3:05Speaker 6: So it was kind of a miscategorization to speak about
- 3:07Speaker 6: the cases that way.
- 3:08Speaker 1: There has been a loss after loss. And I'm going
- 3:11Speaker 1: to play a clip from you. This is one we've
- 3:13Speaker 1: done quite a while ago. This was Judge Fela and
- 3:16Speaker 1: where she was grilling the sec So this is not
- 3:19Speaker 1: currently but this is from one of the previous cases
- 3:22Speaker 1: to give you an idea of just how ludicrous this
- 3:24Speaker 1: statement was.
- 3:25Speaker 2: From start.
- 3:25Speaker 7: Take a look for you to say, will they satisfy?
- 3:27Speaker 4: How he is not a helpful answer to me, what
- 3:30Speaker 4: is it about them?
- 3:32Speaker 3: And please don't say how he?
- 3:33Speaker 7: What is it about them? The token itself is not
- 3:39Speaker 7: the security. I understand that right, token alone not a security.
- 3:42Speaker 7: That's kind of what your friends at the back table
- 3:44Speaker 7: are saying, and they're wondering why we're here.
- 3:46Speaker 1: And of course we saw this a continuous within the
- 3:48Speaker 1: Rippel case, the Coinbase case, all these different cases that
- 3:51Speaker 1: were being challenged left and right.
- 3:53Speaker 2: I want to go to this next clip because this.
- 3:55Speaker 1: Will get into where he thinks he's objective, meaning John
- 3:58Speaker 1: Ery start take a look.
- 4:00Speaker 4: The whole point of securities regulation was to wrap that
- 4:03Speaker 4: all up into a very big, broad, principles based regulation.
- 4:07Speaker 4: The people buying crypto are not collectors. We all know
- 4:11Speaker 4: that they're investors and the mission of the SEC is
- 4:15Speaker 4: to protect investors. And how do I know they're investors
- 4:18Speaker 4: because whenever I go around and talk about this stuff,
- 4:20Speaker 4: whether it be in sixty minutes, you know, I get
- 4:23Speaker 4: death threats afterwards. By the way, I'm president, managing partner,
- 4:27Speaker 4: CEO and director of John Readstar Consulting. I have no
- 4:31Speaker 4: stake in the crypto world or crypto verse.
- 4:34Speaker 8: Of any kind.
- 4:35Speaker 4: I look at this stuff very objectively.
- 4:37Speaker 2: All right.
- 4:37Speaker 1: So when you go over to first of all, investor
- 4:40Speaker 1: collector kind of the same thing. Really, whether you're a
- 4:42Speaker 1: car collector, watch collector, or Pokemon card collector doesn't matter.
- 4:46Speaker 1: There's collectors of all types out there which anticipate a
- 4:50Speaker 1: return on those collectibles. And that is something that has
- 4:54Speaker 1: been argued over and over. But when you look at
- 4:56Speaker 1: his website, John Reachstar Consulting, we're here on the services
- 5:00Speaker 1: that are available. Guess what, right there expert witness. So
- 5:04Speaker 1: in reality, he does have a dog in this hunt
- 5:07Speaker 1: because he is an expert witness for hire to go
- 5:11Speaker 1: out and challenge the crypto communities. We are most likely
- 5:14Speaker 1: going to see him coming in a lot more on
- 5:17Speaker 1: congressional hearings in the near future. I want to go
- 5:20Speaker 1: to another clip. This is where John invites his buddies
- 5:24Speaker 1: to come in on this take a look.
- 5:26Speaker 5: So I'm Lee Reiners. I'm from Duke University, so go Duke.
- 5:31Speaker 5: Let me also note that there's quite a bit of
- 5:33Speaker 5: distance here between my fellow cryptoskeptics, so feeling a little
- 5:37Speaker 5: isolated up here.
- 5:38Speaker 4: But I've taught securities regulation for twenty years, five years
- 5:41Speaker 4: at Duke Lee and I teach at Duke University in Durham.
- 5:46Speaker 4: A friend of ours, Hillary Allen, wrote a book called
- 5:49Speaker 4: Driverless Finance, and I'd recommend that everyone read it.
- 5:51Speaker 1: Wow, quite a crew we've got brewing right now. So
- 5:54Speaker 1: Lee Reiners, you've got John reed Stark in there. And
- 5:57Speaker 1: of course we've done many videos on Hillary Allen. This
- 6:01Speaker 1: is where she was pretty much just destroyed, absolutely destroyed
- 6:04Speaker 1: in a recent hearing. If you guys want to go
- 6:06Speaker 1: back and check that out. They've been here before, They've
- 6:10Speaker 1: been out there trying to fight this fight. You look
- 6:12Speaker 1: at Reyner, Hillary Allen, John reach Stark. All of these
- 6:15Speaker 1: are in alignment with what Senator Warren's position is around crypto.
- 6:20Speaker 1: And in this next clip it'll break down where what
- 6:24Speaker 1: her talking points first are and how they are getting dismantled.
- 6:28Speaker 4: Take a look drug dealing, human sex trafficking, child pornography, terrorism,
- 6:34Speaker 4: ransomware attacks. I'm a ransomware expert, so I set up
- 6:37Speaker 4: the first computer that the Division forceman had with an
- 6:40Speaker 4: Internet access and taught people how to use it. But
- 6:43Speaker 4: for bitcoin there would be no ransomware. You know, there's
- 6:46Speaker 4: always people who say that it's just not true, John,
- 6:48Speaker 4: and FIAT is much worse. It's just not that those
- 6:52Speaker 4: points are really false.
- 6:54Speaker 9: The first set of ransomware occurred in nineteen eighty nine
- 6:56Speaker 9: severely undermines a lot of our cryptocritics points when they
- 6:59Speaker 9: jumped to this weird hyperbole for things that it's just
- 7:01Speaker 9: not it's not necessary.
- 7:02Speaker 4: But you know, ask any cybersecurity attorney. But for bitcoin
- 7:06Speaker 4: there would be, you know, ransomware. It wouldn't happen without bitcoin.
- 7:09Speaker 4: The FBI will tell you that, DOJ will tell you that.
- 7:11Speaker 4: But for bitcoin there would be no ran.
- 7:13Speaker 8: You know, that's not high.
- 7:14Speaker 9: First point ransomware amount was for the eighth trojan Pardon me,
- 7:17Speaker 9: do you know how much was was in that first
- 7:19Speaker 9: ransomware attack in nineteen eighty nine? There were a ninety
- 7:21Speaker 9: thousand floppy disc given out and it was something like
- 7:23Speaker 9: twenty five to fifty dollars each was already a couple
- 7:25Speaker 9: hundred grand, So I'm not sure where you got that, friend.
- 7:28Speaker 4: That's why I say, actually, but every fransomore attack right
- 7:31Speaker 4: now is a good point.
- 7:32Speaker 9: From nineteen ninety two thousand and five, more than thirty
- 7:35Speaker 9: million dollars ransomware attacks happened. It's weird to say, oh, what,
- 7:38Speaker 9: bitcoin invented this and it bitcoin stopped just I'm sorry,
- 7:41Speaker 9: just ump.
- 7:43Speaker 5: He didn't say bitcoin invented but at least every single
- 7:46Speaker 5: star filing tied to ransomware, the ransom was paid in crypto,
- 7:50Speaker 5: mostly bitcoin.
- 7:51Speaker 8: It sounds like from all your writings that your goal
- 7:54Speaker 8: is let's just try and eliminate any crypto anywhere we
- 7:57Speaker 8: can find it. I recommend book to you called Last Call,
- 8:02Speaker 8: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. It's a great book
- 8:04Speaker 8: because there are many many problems prior to prohibition, and
- 8:09Speaker 8: the attempt by the government to tell people don't do
- 8:11Speaker 8: something you want to do failed miserably.
- 8:14Speaker 10: With all due respect to my friend John Stark, they
- 8:17Speaker 10: don't have the statutory authority to do that, and doing
- 8:19Speaker 10: that would actually be breaking the lass. Just because there's
- 8:21Speaker 10: a problem and planes are crashing doesn't mean I want
- 8:24Speaker 10: the SEC to now try and take over for the
- 8:26Speaker 10: air controllers. You know, there's an executive order out there
- 8:29Speaker 10: that says digital asset industry plays a crucial role in
- 8:32Speaker 10: innovation and economic development in the United States and our
- 8:36Speaker 10: international leadership, Like does is the political question doctrine now
- 8:40Speaker 10: being invoked? Does this change the major questions doctor and
- 8:44Speaker 10: application in courts?
- 8:45Speaker 3: Maybe there's so.
- 8:46Speaker 10: Many bigger things here that I think we need to
- 8:49Speaker 10: think about.
- 8:50Speaker 1: This is amazing to me because they're completely getting destroyed,
- 8:53Speaker 1: and this meaning the talking points there of Centator Warren,
- 8:56Speaker 1: which really just mirrored what Stark was talking about. And
- 8:59Speaker 1: it goes a little deeper because now they're kind of
- 9:01Speaker 1: banding together, and what I mean by that is his
- 9:05Speaker 1: buddy from Douke now banning together, still getting destroyed.
- 9:09Speaker 5: Take a look, what if an entity can just release
- 9:12Speaker 5: an updated version of the protocol that's not the same
- 9:16Speaker 5: as the previous protocol.
- 9:17Speaker 6: You're absolutely right, someone could deploy UNISWAP version twenty tomorrow.
- 9:21Speaker 6: But where do the network effects of the system accrue?
- 9:24Speaker 6: Network effects in a system like unie swamp and a
- 9:27Speaker 6: system like ethereum accrue to the network. Therefore, they accrue
- 9:31Speaker 6: to the tokenholders. If someone tomorrow was to say, hey,
- 9:33Speaker 6: we're going to deploy a new version of uni swap,
- 9:35Speaker 6: that version of uni swap would have no liquidity in it.
- 9:38Speaker 6: Therefore it would be completely valueless. The only way it
- 9:41Speaker 6: would ever have value is if people move liquidity from
- 9:44Speaker 6: prior versions of the protocol to that version of the
- 9:46Speaker 6: protocol as a result, right, that clearly demonstrates that the
- 9:50Speaker 6: network effects of that system accrue to the protocol and
- 9:54Speaker 6: not the company that deployed it. And that is a
- 9:56Speaker 6: very key distinction for the overall risk profile.
- 9:59Speaker 8: Of the underlying ass They maybe have a common interest
- 10:02Speaker 8: in the price of that asset, but that it's not
- 10:03Speaker 8: a common enterprise.
- 10:04Speaker 5: What if one of them is the issuer though Lewis.
- 10:06Speaker 8: The Beers is the creator or at least distributor of diamonds.
- 10:10Speaker 8: They have a huge interest in the price of diamonds
- 10:13Speaker 8: and they have a lot of control over that market.
- 10:16Speaker 8: But you can enter into an investment contract with to Beers. Hey, guys,
- 10:20Speaker 8: you're a little short on money. I'm going to give
- 10:22Speaker 8: you one hundred million dollars, and you promised to cut
- 10:25Speaker 8: the supply for the next three months while I'm liquidating.
- 10:29Speaker 8: You totally have an investment contract and investment scheme going on.
- 10:33Speaker 8: But if you buy some diamonds with an expectation that
- 10:36Speaker 8: you know Beers is going to cut supply because you
- 10:38Speaker 8: read something that doesn't put you in a common enterprise
- 10:40Speaker 8: with them, does not make diamonds a security by itself.
- 10:44Speaker 10: That's all in the fifties. In nineteen fifty eight, there
- 10:47Speaker 10: was a trading stamps release one hundred and sixty eight
- 10:51Speaker 10: I think billion dollar market for these things, and there
- 10:54Speaker 10: was secondary trading and all sorts of things with these
- 10:57Speaker 10: with these little gummy stamps, and there were the merchants.
- 10:59Speaker 10: There was this whole infrastructure, and the sec opine that
- 11:03Speaker 10: those were not evidence of indebtedness. They did not even
- 11:07Speaker 10: consider Howie. Twelve years after Howie, they didn't even think
- 11:10Speaker 10: about it, and they rationed if we were to regulate
- 11:13Speaker 10: this as a security, well, then railroad tokens, all these
- 11:17Speaker 10: other things would fall in. And clearly the securities laws
- 11:20Speaker 10: are not supposed to handle all of these commercial transactions.
- 11:23Speaker 3: That there's lots of other things.
- 11:24Speaker 10: Howie does not apply to evidence of indebtedness, howie does
- 11:27Speaker 10: not apply to voting trust certificates. If you're going to
- 11:31Speaker 10: hold somebody to that and they're going to have to
- 11:33Speaker 10: live their life that way. These are people and companies
- 11:36Speaker 10: are full of people, and if you were going to
- 11:38Speaker 10: hold that person responsible and then two months later say, oh,
- 11:41Speaker 10: never mind, it's not a violation for anybody else, you know,
- 11:45Speaker 10: where's the fairness in that?
- 11:48Speaker 4: All?
- 11:48Speaker 5: Right?
- 11:48Speaker 1: So you can see, I mean they were dismantled left
- 11:50Speaker 1: and right. Even I think Lee there at the end
- 11:53Speaker 1: kind of just gave up, crossed his arms.
- 11:55Speaker 2: His body posture was like.
- 11:57Speaker 1: They're killing me on every angle of where this is
- 12:00Speaker 1: gonna position in terms of investment contracts, which is clearly
- 12:04Speaker 1: going to be a big category going forward in terms
- 12:07Speaker 1: of decisions from the SEC, because there's still gonna be
- 12:10Speaker 1: a lot of projects that are coming to try to
- 12:12Speaker 1: get approval through the SEC. They need to establish what
- 12:15Speaker 1: these ground rules are, which is what this task force
- 12:18Speaker 1: is trying to do. However, John Restart tried one more time.
- 12:21Speaker 1: Now he's using the idea of utility. So take a look.
- 12:25Speaker 2: And I don't see it as innovation.
- 12:27Speaker 4: I see the iPhone as innovation. I see the cloud
- 12:30Speaker 4: as innovation. I see AI as innovation. I don't see it.
- 12:33Speaker 4: I agree with Commissioner Crenshaw, where's the utility? If it
- 12:36Speaker 4: all went away tomorrow, you wouldn't care. Is this pivot
- 12:40Speaker 4: worth it? I just don't see it. Whether it's a
- 12:42Speaker 4: gummy stamp or equivalent to an American Girl doll or
- 12:45Speaker 4: a Pokemon card or whatever, is that worth it? Ask yourselves?
- 12:50Speaker 4: Is it something that I really care about? And is
- 12:52Speaker 4: this pivot worth it?
- 12:53Speaker 6: All right, so I'm gonna keep us on time.
- 12:57Speaker 2: Many of people will look at this all the way back.
- 12:59Speaker 1: To the era of the internet mobile, any kind of
- 13:01Speaker 1: innovation that's been done in technology in the early days
- 13:05Speaker 1: were often scoffed at he has done. I think overall,
- 13:09Speaker 1: this is a last clip that kind of goes in.
- 13:11Speaker 1: Actually I got what two more clothes? This is a
- 13:13Speaker 1: clip that kind of goes in on other lawyer's opinion
- 13:17Speaker 1: of start take a look.
- 13:19Speaker 5: Never before in the history of the United States have
- 13:21Speaker 5: we had an entire industry when told what the law
- 13:24Speaker 5: is say no, we are not going to follow it.
- 13:28Speaker 4: Like register as what register as?
- 13:29Speaker 5: What?
- 13:30Speaker 6: I mean?
- 13:31Speaker 9: We have been trying for years to find a path
- 13:35Speaker 9: for compliance.
- 13:36Speaker 6: You know, those that sought to come in and register, right,
- 13:39Speaker 6: all of them went bankrupt. And what you're hearing up
- 13:42Speaker 6: here on this stage is, let's treat these all securities.
- 13:45Speaker 6: We need to align the incentives of entrepreneurs right with
- 13:49Speaker 6: the incentives of our regulatory structure, which is to reduce
- 13:52Speaker 6: information asymmetries, reduce trust dependencies, reduce risk. Failing to do
- 13:57Speaker 6: so is just an arco tyranny.
- 14:00Speaker 5: Rodrigo tough fact to follow, little bit.
- 14:05Speaker 2: I like a narco tyranny, all right.
- 14:08Speaker 1: So the point being here, guys, is that there's still
- 14:10Speaker 1: a struggle within the SEC. I think there is a
- 14:12Speaker 1: struggle within certain factions of Congress that are going to
- 14:16Speaker 1: continue to push these narratives forward. So it's not one
- 14:19Speaker 1: of those things where crypto has won. Don't think of
- 14:21Speaker 1: it that way. However, if you look at what's happening
- 14:24Speaker 1: in Capitol Hill within the Trump administration, Trump signs an
- 14:27Speaker 1: executive order now to modernize the Treasury payment system. This
- 14:30Speaker 1: is a big deal because this affects SWIFT directly, and Swift,
- 14:34Speaker 1: of course is used by all the G ten nations
- 14:37Speaker 1: as a standard that's used to move money around the
- 14:40Speaker 1: world and If this is actually done, we could see
- 14:43Speaker 1: an unbelievable impact on maybe one of the biggest platforms
- 14:48Speaker 1: out there, and that's going to be Ripple and XRP.
- 14:50Speaker 2: Here's a clip that goes a little bit more into this.
- 14:53Speaker 2: Take a look.
- 14:54Speaker 7: I have an executive order for your attention relating actually
- 14:58Speaker 7: to government payments. Historically, checks issued by the Treasury I
- 15:02Speaker 7: believe fourteen times more likely to become the subject of
- 15:06Speaker 7: fraud than electronic transfer payments. This is an executive order
- 15:10Speaker 7: that's going to push the Treasury Department to modernize its
- 15:13Speaker 7: payment system to ensure that where possible, they're using electronic
- 15:17Speaker 7: methods of payment as opposed to paper checks in order
- 15:20Speaker 7: to reduce waste, fraud, and abuse in the government, which
- 15:23Speaker 7: is obviously an endeavor that we've been pursuing in numerous
- 15:27Speaker 7: aspects of government under your leadership.
- 15:29Speaker 5: It's basically modernization of equipment and methods.
- 15:33Speaker 6: It's something that should have been done twenty five to
- 15:35Speaker 6: thirty years ago.
- 15:41Speaker 1: Obviously an outdated system which makes it apparently fourteen times
- 15:45Speaker 1: more likely to see fraud within that system. This is
- 15:49Speaker 1: a clear move I think, to one revolutionize how payments
- 15:53Speaker 1: are done. This will happen on the blockchain, and most
- 15:55Speaker 1: likely it's going to happen with someone like Ripple who
- 15:57Speaker 1: has a lot of experience in this, So be on
- 15:59Speaker 1: the look look out for what we could see coming
- 16:02Speaker 1: down the pipeline.
- 16:02Speaker 2: I think this is just the beginning. Guys.
- 16:04Speaker 1: We're going to see a lot more of this coming
- 16:05Speaker 1: in from the SEC, from the Administration, especially as we
- 16:09Speaker 1: start to get regulatory the alignment coming out of Congress.
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