Binance, Coinbase, & the SEC's illegal war on Crypto | Thomas Hogan & Kate Wand

On this episode of Liberty Curious, Kate Wand sat down with Thomas Hogan, to discuss what he coined the SEC’s illegal war against crypto.

Tom is senior research faculty at AIER and former chair to the senate committee on banking, housing & urban affairs.

Thomas explains how "the SEC has charged crypto exchanges Binance and Coinbase with facilitating the trade of unregistered securities. Yet the opacity of the statute as it pertains to crypto and the SEC’s arbitrary and contradictory application have made compliance with the law impossible."

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WEF Whitepaper on Crypto: https://www.weforum.org/whitepapers/pathways-to-crypto-asset-regulation-a-global-approach/

0:00 - intro

0:42 - operation chokepoint 2.0

2:17 - SEC sues Binance and Coinbase

3:32 - CBDCs

4:47 - Crypto & blockchain

10:15 - Market-driven innovation

13:35 - Blackrock & Big Traditional Players

15:08 - The particulars of the case

24:37 - WEF Whitepaper on Crypto

32:20 - Prometheum

34:12 - FTX 2.0?

38:00 - Gary Gensler's weird relationships

42:20 - Last thoughts on Crypto industry

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