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by peyton 1186 days ago
The CFTC disagrees [1]. Hardly a bright line.

[1]: https://decrypt.co/123032/cftc-chair-says-ethereum-is-a-comm...

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He would say that because he wants jurisdiction.

His argument appears to be "let's just sunk-cost our way through instead of actually doing the correct thing."

> “It’s been listed on CFTC exchanges for quite some time, and for that reason,” said Behnam, who argued that it creates a “direct jurisdictional hook” for the agency to police both ETH’s derivatives market and underlying market.

Either way they're literally only talking about ETH, which is again, clearly a security as following their framework, nothing else has a long history of being listed on a CFTC exchange. But I digress.

I feel like you’re painting good-faith disagreement as “community pretending there isn’t a bright red line” or “he would say that because he wants jurisdiction,” so I don’t think there’s more to talk about.
There's no basis for arguing about your feelings. Your emotions are yours.
>He would say that because he wants jurisdiction

You can make the same argument about the SEC.