Cryptocurrency Regulation under US Securities Laws and Proposed Amendments

摘要

Securities regulation continues to be a complex way of regulating cryptocurrencies and is due for modification. It is apparent many cryptocurrencies may start as a security, but later become something entirely different. Current practices in place under the US securities laws may provide viable work-arounds to the some of the inefficiencies generated by treating a mature cryptocurrency as a security, but further reform would provide a less restrictive process and thereby induce further growth in this growing area of technology.