Welcome to the Tech Meam ride home for Tuesday, May 9th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

More roiling questions about crypto and regulator enforcement.

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Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

A bunch of crypto headlines this morning related to that growing belief among

crypto companies that US regulators want to passive aggressively put them out of

business. On the one hand,

Coinbased CEO Brian Armstrong walked back his suggestions that the company could be

forced to leave the US, but did say that the US SEC is on what he called a loan

crusade against crypto, quoting

cambec. The SEC is a bit of an outlier here.

Armstrong told the NBC's Dan Murphy in an interview in Dubai Monday.

There's kind of a lone crusade, if you will, with Van Murphy in an interview in Dubai Monday.

There's kind of a lone crusade, if you will,

with Gary Gensler, the chair there,

and he has taken a more anti-cripto view

for some reason.

I don't think he's necessarily trying

to regulate the industry as much as maybe curtail it.

But he's created some lawsuits and I think it's quite unhelpful for the industry in the U.S. writ large,

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