On June 6, the SEC announced it was charging Coinbase for operating as an unregistered securities exchange, broker, and clearing agency. That prompted media speculation that this could be the death knell for crypto in the US, which seems an extreme conclusion. But the SEC announcement didn’t pull any punches:
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