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Alt-Coin-Delete: Wall Street Moves In
The US regulatory crackdown on crypto may create room for a different kind of token, something that banks can easily provide.
Checking crypto’s unbridled growth.
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The entire business model of cryptocurrencies is at risk of falling apart, and Wall Street firms couldn’t be any happier.
Now that the US Securities and Exchange Commission has decided to regulate a range of widely traded digital coins as securities, and sued two of their largest trading venues for peddling them without first registering the tokens with the authority, there is a good chance that blockchain leadership may finally pass over to regulated banks.