Zakon dekodiran: Kitajski FUD in lažne dihotomije, 20. – 27. September

V luči yet another iteration of China’s enduring crackdown on cryptocurrency, a particularly influential narrative on Crypto Twitter suggests that by banning Bitcoin (BTC), China has definitively put itself on the dark side of the struggle, while the collective West must now resolutely throw its weight on the opposite side by embracing crypto.

Res je, da je ta okvir za razmišljanje o razmerju med politično močjo in decentraliziranimi financami privlačen za kripto zaveznike. Toda novice, ki prihajajo iz Združenih držav, dajejo le malo razlogov za domnevo, da tamkajšnji oblikovalci politik vidijo situacijo tako.

Zdi se, da si ameriške elite prizadevajo ohraniti obstoječi finančni red in omejiti rast prostora digitalnih sredstev, četudi z manj trdimi orodji kot njihovi kitajski kolegi. Ta pristop na srednji poti bo verjetno prinesel ZDA nekje v središče temnega/svetlobnega kontinuuma, ki sega od Kitajske do še vedno nedosegljivega ideala družbe, ki je sprejela popolnoma brez posrednega finančnega sistema.

Kitajske imajo številne prepovedi kripto

The Friday Izjava by the People’s Bank of China that caused a short-lived crypto market crash is at least the 19th instance of a noticeable FUD wave that could be traced back to the Asian superpower in the last 12 years. Not only do the hostile moves historically fail to deter the global growth of the crypto space — sometimes they spell massive advancements for Bitcoin and co. in the medium term.

Ameriški regulatorji: Več istega

Over in the U.S., Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler sat down with The Washington Post’s David Ignatius to specifically talk crypto. We haven’t learned much new, as Gensler chose to resort to a collection of tired analogies (and a few newer ones) to double down on his controversial stance that most digital assets are securities. Talking about stablecoins, the SEC boss likened them to “poker chips at the casino.”

Meanwhile, the nation’s largest banking regulator, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, could finally get a permanent chief in Cornell professor Saule Omarova. Omarova is a vocal critic of both big banks and crypto — as something allegedly benefitting “the dysfunctional financial system we already have.” 

Uveljavljanje zoper kripto infrastrukturo?

Ministrstvo za finance prejšnji teden dodano Russo-Czech over-the-counter crypto platform Suex to the list of Specially Designated Nationals with which U.S. persons are prohibited to deal. This marks the first time when a digital asset services provider gets targeted by U.S. sanctions.

Suex je bil kaznovan, ker je domnevno pomagal kibernetskim kriminalcem obdelati plačila za odkupno programsko opremo. Čeprav je malo verjetno, da bi številni zakoniti posamezniki in podjetja iz ZDA prenašali sredstva prek tega posrednika, je ta poteza lahko znak nove politike Bidnove uprave, ki cilja na osrednja mesta ekosistema digitalnih sredstev.

Vir: https://cointelegraph.com/news/law-decoded-china-fud-and-false-dichotomies-sept-20-27