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 <p class="paragraph">Following the recent announcement by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on imposing new rules that would place under its supervision individuals trading cryptocurrencies, a famous Bitcoin (BTC) skeptic, Peter Schiff, has lashed out at the regulator.</p>
 <p class="paragraph">As it happens, the agency has recently adopted a 247-page rule that requires “market participants who engage in certain dealer roles, in particular those who take on significant liquidity-providing roles in the markets, to register with the SEC,” according to the press release on February 6.</p>
 <p class="paragraph">Indeed, under the newly introduced <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="rules" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/rules.html">rules</a>, individuals trading <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="crypto" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/crypto.html">crypto</a> assets, securities, or government securities, with assets exceeding $50 million, will have to “become members of a self-regulatory organization (SRO) and comply with federal securities laws and regulatory obligations.”</p>
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 <p class="paragraph">Commenting on the development, an economist and prominent critic of the flagship decentralized finance (DeFi) asset, Peter Schiff, pointed out the lack of logic in the SEC’s reasoning for making its most recent decision, as there was no law that would back it up, as he said in an X post on February 6.</p>
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    <p lang="en" dir="ltr">How can the #SEC, a government agency, on its own change the definition of a "security dealer," so that it can regulate something that is not actually a security dealer, without any law having been passed to authorize such regulation? We are a nation of laws, not bureaucrats.</p>— Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff) February 6, 2024
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 <p class="paragraph">Interestingly, Schiff has been very vocal about his <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="skeptic" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/skeptic.html">skeptic</a>ism toward Bitcoin, arguing that the maiden <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="crypto" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/crypto.html">crypto</a> asset would ultimately collapse to zero and noting that it would only reach $10 million by 2031 if the US dollar “goes the way of the German Papiermark” and crashes, as Finbold reported on January 29.</p>
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 <p class="paragraph">Meanwhile, the SEC’s latest rule-making has hardly been unanimous. As paraphrased by attorney Gabriel Shapiro, Commissioner Hester Peirce asked the SEC staff how many people would fall under this rule and whether those writing the code would need to register, to which she received a reply that:</p>
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 <p class="paragraph">In response, the Commissioner, who has often expressed dissatisfaction with how her agency treated the <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="crypto" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/crypto.html">crypto</a> market, said that they “are not compliant because they can’t figure out our <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="rules" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/rules.html">rules</a>” and concluded that carrying out these <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="rules" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/rules.html">rules</a> “will be a huge implementation challenge for us.”</p>
 <p class="paragraph">As Shapiro subsequently wrote, SEC’s chairman Gary Gensler said during this exchange that “there is a de minimis threshold… I think it’s $50 million?” referring to the amount of assets that the securities watchdog considers too trivial or minor to merit consideration in legal terms.</p>
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<p>Source: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://thebittimes.com/bitcoin-skeptic-peter-schiff-slams-new-sec-crypto-rules-tbt79175.html">https://thebittimes.com/bitcoin-skeptic-peter-schiff-slams-new-sec-crypto-rules-tbt79175.html</a></p>

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