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Bitcoin Daily: Bitcoin Sheds $20 Billion Off Market Cap; Gibralter-Based FinTech Launches Tokenized Securities Platform
Bitcoin // May 11, 2020

California lawmakers have introduced a bill that would attempt to more clearly define how cryptocurrency is meant to be treated, and definitively determine if it is an investment contract. According to the law, digital securities “presumptively not an investment contract” would not be subjected to...

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US Judge Rules Ripple’s Cryptocurrencies are Securities, But Only Sometimes

July 13, 2023
A U.S. District Judge ruled Thursday (July 13) that cryptocurrencies sold to institutional investors by Ripple are securities under federal regulations. “Institutional buyers would have understood that Ripple was pitching a speculative value proposition for XRP with potential profits to be derived from Ripple’s entrepreneurial and managerial efforts,” U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres wrote in the decision, […]

Bitcoin Daily: Bitcoin Sheds $20 Billion Off Market Cap; Gibralter-Based FinTech Launches Tokenized Securities Platform

May 11, 2020
California lawmakers have introduced a bill that would attempt to more clearly define how cryptocurrency is meant to be treated, and definitively determine if it is an investment contract. According...