John Paul Koning

"The goal of crypto is not to play games with million-dollar pictures of monkeys," says @vitalikbuterin: [link] The TIME article strikes me as a sequel to Buterin's classic "have we earned it?" thread from 2017, well worth rereading:

Crypto assets are new versions of already-regulated financial products, and thus they don't require new legislation or statutory carve-outs, says @tphillips. In this helpful article he maps out how existing regulations apply to each type of crypto:

Ledn, a crypto lender, filed a registration with the Ontario Securities Commission earlier this year. “We’re not sure yet how the OSC plans to designate us.” Good article by @VanmalaS on the state of Canadian and US crypto lending regulation:

Great article. What about the IRS scammers who ask targets to pay with Google Play gift cards? To what degree are they able to launder cards on these exchanges?