{"id":29171,"date":"2022-09-16T06:12:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T06:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=29171"},"modified":"2022-09-16T06:12:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T06:12:20","slug":"ripple-general-counsel-slams-sec-chairmans-recent-testimony-says-does-he-really-know-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=29171","title":{"rendered":"Ripple General Counsel Slams SEC Chairman\u2019s Recent Testimony Says \u201cDoes He Really Know The Law\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_top_ad \"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211; Advertisement &#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3uvm777\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Follow-Us-On-Google-News\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" src=\"https:\/\/thecryptobasic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Follow-Us-On-Google-News.png\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17740 size-full lazyload\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17740 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thecryptobasic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Follow-Us-On-Google-News.png\" alt=\"Follow-Us-On-Google-News\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>Ripple General Counsel Question SEC Chairman\u2019s Interpretation of Supreme Court\u2019s Security Test.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ripple General Counsel Slams SEC Chairman\u2019s Interpretation of Supreme Court\u2019s Security Test.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Stuart Alderoty, the General Counsel at Ripple, has banged SEC Chairman Gary Gensler for misinterpreting the U.S. Supreme Court test to determine what should be a security.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The general counsel of the leading blockchain company made this known in a tweet today, saying that he could not ascertain why Gensler misstated the Supreme Court\u2019s test.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He wondered whether Gensler misstated the test intentionally or if the misinterpretation was because the SEC chair did not understand the law. Alderoty posed a question to his followers to determine which of the scenarios could be worse.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><em>\u201cIn today\u2019s Senate Banking Committee hearings, Chair Gensler misstated the Supreme Court test to determine what is and isn\u2019t a security,\u201d<\/em> Alderoty said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In today\u2019s Senate Banking Committee hearings, Chair Gensler misstated the Supreme Court test to determine what is and isn\u2019t a security. Was it intentional or does he really not know the law? Which is worse?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stuart Alderoty (@s_alderoty) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/s_alderoty\/status\/1570600189458784256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">September 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Reactions to the Question<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The question raised by Alderoty has prompted many responses from cryptocurrency enthusiasts, with many people stating their views on the issue.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Attorney James K Filan said: <em>\u201cThere are no accidents.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/XRPCommunity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">#XRPCommunity<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/XRP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">#XRP<\/a> from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/s_alderoty?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">@s_alderoty<\/a> &#x1f447; There are no accidents. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y836xk98sR\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/Y836xk98sR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 James K. Filan &#x1f1fa;&#x1f1f8;&#x1f1ee;&#x1f1ea; 112k (beware of imposters) (@FilanLaw) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FilanLaw\/status\/1570603984590864385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">September 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">LBRY, a crypto-related company currently in a legal battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LBRYcom\/status\/1570619302944067587?\" rel=\"noopener\">also replied<\/a>: \u201c<em>Your tact is admirable, but we all know which one it was.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Gensler Defends SEC\u2019s Regulatory Stance on Crypto<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Alderoty\u2019s view on Gensler\u2019s comment comes a few hours after\u00a0<\/span><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/thecryptobasic.com\/2022\/09\/14\/here-is-sec-chairman-gary-gensler-testimony-about-crypto-at-the-u-s-senate-banking-committee-hearing\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the SEC boss defended the agency in front of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/advisor\/articles\/gensler-toomey-hearing-crypto-regulation-51663273585\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Gensler noted at the hearing<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> that aside from Bitcoin, all cryptocurrencies fit the definition of security and should be registered accordingly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He commented after skeptical senators noted that there is a possibility that some cryptocurrencies could be classed as conventional stocks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Pat Toomey (Penn.), the top Republican on the panel, said:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cCrypto tokens have varying degrees of decentralization, they usually do not have a financial claim on the issuer [\u2026] These are very major and important differences from traditional securities, and they merit a clearly stated and tailored regulatory framework.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Responding to the Senators\u2019 concerns, Gensler said the Supreme Court had already put to rest the argument on what assets should be classed as a security.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The SEC chair said many factors can be used to ascertain security, adding: <em>\u201cIt\u2019s not one spectrum of decentralization versus decentralization.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211; Advertisement &#8211;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thecryptobasic.com\/2022\/09\/16\/ripple-general-counsel-slams-sec-chairmans-recent-testimony-at-the-senate-banking-committee\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; Advertisement &#8211; Ripple General Counsel Question SEC Chairman\u2019s Interpretation of Supreme Court\u2019s Security Test. 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Stuart Alderoty, the General Counsel at Ripple, has banged SEC Chairman Gary Gensler for misinterpreting the U.S. Supreme Court test to determine what should be a security.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[45],"tags":[11192,9896,8824,1020,265,605,5046,9228],"class_list":["post-29171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ripple","tag-chairmans","tag-counsel","tag-general","tag-law","tag-ripple","tag-sec","tag-slams","tag-testimony"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Ripple-General-Counsel-Slams-SEC.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29173,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29171\/revisions\/29173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}