Former Chief Legal Officer, @delv_tech (fka Element). Formerly FinCEN, @CFPB, DOJ prosecutor. Former partner & now senior counsel at Hogan Lovells. Views mine.
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I don’t know @theweb3jess , but I agree with her and support her in calling this out. You may not. But there’s nothing that warrants the misogyny, ugliness, and trolling that’s been thrown at her.
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Gregory C. Lisa retweeted
Consensus - great attendance, high-spirited vibes, an insane amount of elaborate side events, tradfi everywhere. On the closing party at a strip club, thanks, you've just made policy work - arguing that this industry isn't a bunch of crypto bros - much, much harder.
Many thanks to @ohaiom for putting this together. Donald Trump must never be close to the Oval Office, with the nuclear codes, and affecting the fates of women, minorities, our children, our economy, and our security ever, ever again.
I don't agree w @milesjennings about everything, but he's 100% right on this. Downplaying criminal activity in crypto isn't just bad lawyering; & it's not just being a bad citizen. It's bad for crypto itself, because the future depends upon adoption-& THAT depends upon legitimacy
I’m all for calling out lawfare, but crying foul about justified and legitimate government actions against criminals doesn’t help crypto’s cause.
Obviously, criminality in tradfi should be rooted out with the same vigor as criminality in crypto.
But the ongoing prevalence of criminality in tradfi doesn’t mean we should accept the same in crypto, where the transparency of blockchains enables us to build a better future.
Downplaying deliberate and widespread criminal behavior in crypto based on convenient assumptions and false equivalences acts to distort our collective vision of that future.
Absolutely right--well thought-out and a really important discussion. As an aside, not only is crypto not a partisan issue (& it shouldn't be); it's also not the most important issue in this election. If you're going to be a single-issue voter, don't make this your single issue.
This is a great piece. Digital assets policy is not partisan, and smart digital assets legislation is utterly vital to securing the future of the American economy.
Thank you @JaiMassari @RebeccaRettig1 @ccatalini
Gregory C. Lisa retweeted
This is a great piece. Digital assets policy is not partisan, and smart digital assets legislation is utterly vital to securing the future of the American economy.
Thank you @JaiMassari @RebeccaRettig1 @ccatalini
6) Read the full opinion piece with @ccatalini @RebeccaRettig1 in @prsyndicate001
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Gregory C. Lisa retweeted
CRYPTO BROKER REPORTING REGS FINALIZED
On Friday, June 28, Treasury and the IRS issued final regs under tax code section 6045 requiring custodial brokers to report dispositions of digital assets to the seller and the IRS on Form 1099-DA.
A summary 🧵 of key points (1/27) ...
Gregory C. Lisa retweeted
This is a key point. The reason the approval of the spot ETH ETFs is a clear indication that the SEC does not consider ETH a security is because funds whose assets are 40% or more securities may not register through a Form S-1; rather, they are considered investment companies and must register on Form N-1A or N-2. That the SEC is allowing the registration of these funds - whose assets are well north of 40% ETH - via an S-1 means the question is settled: ETH is not security.
Congrats to the issuers and such a milestone for the industry. What a week!
Gregory C. Lisa retweeted
it was bad enough that someone calling himself a "researcher" did a whole post about my "potential involvement in editing crypto-related articles for Wikipedia" without even checking what my involvement might be
but now the journalists at @protos are just reprinting it?
Crypto bros upset over Wikipedia’s ‘garbage’ Solana coverage protos.com/crypto-bros-upset…
First metrics from the Hyperdrive Testnet, brought to you by @delv_tech. We're so lucky to have such amazing builders (@JonnyRhea , @jalex_towle , and the whole crew), and leadership (looking at you, @CharlieStLouis).
As usual, @JonnyRhea posts a really insightful, intelligent, and thought-provoking tweet. As usual, the only word I understand in his sentence is the preposition ("around"). It's as if I've stumbled into the Mensa Society meeting and I'm looking around for the Lego table.
He's a rock star, that @JonnyRhea
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For those of you who celebrate, let me be the first to wish you, and your respective families a happy and restful Snack-a-Palooza. I'll see you later this year around Toyotathon.
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Phenomenal work by the amazing @JonnyRhea , @jalex_towle, and the whole team of builders at @delv_tech. Testnet is live!
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Gregory C. Lisa retweeted
If your argument is that "you need the casino to bootstrap the space", think again anon—you've got it wrong.
Yes, we need mechanisms for funding new decentralized networks early on when the value they'll create is uncertain. But no, we don't need tokens without soul or purpose that moon on nothing but memes and then fall off a cliff.
Yes, we need functioning markets to make the incentive structures that we build into our protocols real. But no, we don't need yet another perps exchange with 100x leverage.
Yes, we need ways of distributing ownership of a network to a community. But no, we don't need gamified schemes that cater to parasitic airdrop farmers just to artificially pump some vanity TVL metric.
The logic that we need the casino is just a thinly veiled attempt to excuse bad behavior in the space. We don't need the casino. We never did. It's the primary force holding the space back.
Two visions for crypto:
- You can use it to create long-term alignment of incentives that increase the scale of human cooperation toward building new things.
- Or, you can use it to build a degenerate casino of meaningless speculation that turns everything into a zero sum game.
Let’s do the former please, thanks.
My amazing DELV colleagues @AlimKhamisa and @MazyGio led an amazing team to make this magic happen. Hyperdrive docs have been released!
