BREAKDOWN: What’s Really Behind SEC Chairman Gary Gensler’s Crypto Speech
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🗓️ 4 August 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The biggest dividing line among politicians who have questions about crypto is whether those |
| 0:04.8 | questions are about things like investor protections, but they remain enthusiastic about possibilities, |
| 0:10.0 | or whether those politicians only see systemic risk and an enemy that must be fought. |
| 0:16.8 | I, at this point, am willing to engage with just about anyone who falls into that first category |
| 0:22.2 | because the second category is where the real existential battles lie. |
| 0:28.4 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:32.6 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the Big Picture Power Shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:39.7 | The breakdown is sponsored by Nidig and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:46.0 | What's going on, guys? It is Wednesday, August 4th, and today we are picking up where we left |
| 0:51.2 | off yesterday and asking what's really behind SEC Chair Gary Gensler's |
| 0:57.1 | crypto speech. |
| 0:58.7 | So, on yesterday's show, I gave the full debrief about the state of the infrastructure |
| 1:04.0 | bill. |
| 1:05.0 | For those playing catch up, at the 11th hour last week, a provision was put into the $550 |
| 1:10.1 | billion infrastructure bill that would change |
| 1:12.3 | tax reporting requirements around crypto. The authors claim that it would generate $28 billion |
| 1:17.5 | in unpaid crypto taxes. And the mechanism for that was changing the definition of broker |
| 1:23.7 | to include effectively anyone involved in facilitating crypto transactions. |
| 1:28.9 | The problem is that while custodial facilitation is what actual brokers do in traditional |
| 1:33.9 | financial systems, in blockchain systems, many actors, including miners, validators, etc., could |
| 1:40.8 | be considered facilitators, especially when you remove, as this definition did, the |
| 1:46.2 | custodial requirement. And that's the problem. These actors are non-custodial and don't even have |
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