Crypto community responds to US democrats backing SEC’s crypto authority
The United States Democratic Party has expressed its intent to back the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) total authority over crypto in a memo circulated among committee members before a hearing. The documents were shared on social media, causing backlash from crypto community members.
On May 10, the documents were shared on Twitter, highlighting key messages for the democrats to support the SEC’s authority on crypto regulation. This includes its argument that nearly all digital assets constitute securities.
Some threatened to give their votes to other parties; others argued that there were a lot of contradictions in the documents, and various community members went on Twitter to express their dissatisfaction with the move against crypto.
According to one community member, the memorandum shows where each party stands on crypto regulation. According to the Twitter user, the Republican Party wants a clear framework, while the Democratic Party asserts that the SEC has already clarified that almost all digital assets are securities.
Meanwhile, another member of the community expressed that they could no longer be a part of the party. The community member argued that the Democratic Party is playing god with the “future of American innovation.“ In addition, the Twitter user said the party is making decisions over a technology that it does not understand.
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Community member Austin Campbell also highlighted how foreign governments would be excited about the prospect of taking the future of Fintech from the United States. Campbell tweeted:
This is incredibly dumb if true; if I was a foreign government I would be ecstatic at the
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