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Re: full picture on US MSB regs, state and federal
by
darkmule
on 17/05/2013, 21:10:48 UTC
My partner Joe Skocilich wrote a fairly good post awhile back about why we don't think that bitcoin is a "security" http://adlervermillion.com/blog/innovation-and-legal-panic%E2%80%94bitcoin/

Ya know, the bitcoin foundation really ought to commission a policy position paper of some sort...

BTC is not, itself, a security.  However, there are people creating and buying and selling items packaged as securities in which the underlying business is BTC-based.  They trade on what are purported to be "stock exchanges."  Some of these are outright Ponzi scams.

Similarly, BTC is not, itself, a Ponzi scam.  However, Ponzi scams exist in which the underlying currency is BTC.

If nothing else, some of these highly questionable products look like some kind of commodities future.