{"id":1869,"date":"2022-09-09T16:11:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T21:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2022-09-09T16:11:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T21:11:22","slug":"should-crypto-currency-fall-under-securities-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1869","title":{"rendered":"Should Crypto Currency Fall Under Securities Laws?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gary Gensler, SEC Chair is proposing that those managing crypto entities register under the current securities laws.  He points to the fact that, \u00a0&#8220;Investor protection is just as relevant, regardless of underlying technologies,&#8217; and that the purpose of the securities laws enacted by Congress was to oversee investments in any form.  Read More here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journalofaccountancy.com\/news\/2022\/sep\/sec-chair-seeks-increased-regulation-cryptoassets.html\">SEC chair seeks increased regulation of cryptoassets<\/a>, in the Journal of Accountancy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Gensler, SEC Chair is proposing that those managing crypto entities register under the current securities laws. He points to the fact that, \u00a0&#8220;Investor protection is just as relevant, regardless of underlying technologies,&#8217; and that the purpose of the securities laws enacted by Congress was to oversee investments in any form. Read More here: SEC &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1869\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Should Crypto Currency Fall Under Securities Laws?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[615,1301,1530,1528,1529],"class_list":["post-1869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-federal-income-tax","tag-accounting","tag-crypto-currency","tag-investor-protection","tag-securities-laws","tag-us-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1871,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions\/1871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}