1/ Maybe, but here’s a YUGE prob for securities #tokens: do you need a securities brokerage account just to use the token? Most brokers & their custodians prob won’t integrate with a #blockchain, which means these incumbents can kill the industry simply by not integrating &...
2/ ...thus impeding the token’s use value & preventing it from ever building network effects. If every token must be a security, then @SEC_News should allow wallets to hold securities tokens for short-term, transactional purposes outside of securities brokers. Not doing that...
3/ ...would effectively give the incumbent securities industry the right to block securities tokens & the token industy would just leave the US. That would be anti-competitive, bad policy & just morally wrong. I hope the @SEC_News will get this policy right. #utilitytokens
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2/ ...hear @aantonop & I talk about rehypothecation coming to #bitcoin & #crypto, whether it's legal vs fraud vs merely unethical, how it's a form of #fractionalreservebanking, how it relates to @OverstockCEO's prior discussions of #WallSt's "bezzle" & how big that bezzle is...
3/ ...#BTC#ETFs offer exposure to #bitcoin price w/o owning it, controlling it or learning anything about it. "Physically-settled" ETFs entail zero transparency into the omnibus account where the BTC is stored--so you have no way to keep custodian honest & have no audit rights..
1/ Interesting response from @Bakkt today. For #bitcoin this is good news/bad news. First the good--Bakkt disclosed it's not using margin or leverage (explicitly). That's positive. But then the bad--it was silent about hidden leverage, which is subtle... medium.com/bakkt-blog/htt…
2/ ...and insidious--namely, rehypothecation & commingling of collateral in the clearinghouse, rather than in an individual futures contract itself. Read about how commingling & rehypothecation happen here: forbes.com/sites/caitlinl…
3/ ...and, having negotiated collateral agreements as a pension fiduciary (& tried to get CCPs to agree not to commingle or rehypothecate collateral), this is where the devil is truly in the details. A standard collateral agreement is here (see para 6c): findknowdo.com/sites/default/…
2/ "And #bitcoin was the epitome of a broken model that if fixed, could change the world." --Jeff Sprecher, founder, chairman & CEO of @ICE_Markets
3/ "Sprecher & Loeffler disagree, arguing that a strong central infrastructure is precisely what's needed, and that ICE and its partners are the ones to supply it." [Loeffler is CEO of @Bakkt, previously head of IR/comms/mktg at @ICE_Markets]