{"id":20272,"date":"2022-12-21T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/?p=20272"},"modified":"2022-12-21T22:21:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T04:21:31","slug":"senate-talks-banning-crypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/big-data\/senate-talks-banning-crypto\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate banking chair flirts with the possibility of banning crypto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If your opinion of crypto has soured in the past year, you aren\u2019t alone. Sherrod Brown, United States senator and chairman of the United States Banking Committee, recently suggested a ban on cryptocurrency<\/a>, which could affect yourself, your family, your clients, or your career, if it were to come to fruition. Will it?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Admittedly, Brown softly walked back his idea just as soon as he shared it on NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press,\u201d noting that a ban could be \u201cvery difficult\u201d and adding the possibility that cryptocurrency itself could \u201cgo offshore.\u201d Should that happen, Brown says, no one currently involved in the process of addressing cryptocurrency would know how to proceed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a bold foray into uncharted waters, but Brown\u2019s notion isn\u2019t without some backing power, featuring both the Securities Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in his loose proposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve already gone to the Treasury and the Secretary and asked for a government-wide assessment through all the various regulatory agencies,\u201d said Brown, describing the SEC as \u201cparticularly aggressive\u201d in the process. \u201c…[W]e need to move forward that way and legislatively if it comes to that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Brown\u2019s decidedly fervent ideology here may seem like it\u2019s coming out of left field, but the senator has clearly given this some thought, identifying cryptocurrency as a \u201cthreat to national security\u201d and pointing to various human rights violations and incidents of terrorism as issues that have been partially financed and otherwise supported by crypto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, Cointelegraph notes that Brown has been building up to this moment for \u201cover a year,\u201d making his stance a bit less surprising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless, Brown acknowledges that cryptocurrency moderation – or even a wholesale ban – is not enough to solve the umbrella of issues caused by decentralized currency, instead calling the idea \u201conly one huge part\u201d of the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea itself is redolent of mighty ambition, but while large players like the SEC could create serious interest, it is exceptionally unlikely that cryptocurrency will be banned anytime in the foreseeable future\u2013especially because, as Brown fears, any actual attempts to do so would simply drive it further underground than it already resides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cryptocurrency also continues to foster allies throughout the United States government, with Senator Tom Emmer and chairman-to-be of the House Committee on Financial Service Patrick McHenry both holding cryptocurrency in varying degrees of positive regard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Banning crypto is something we didn’t think we would hear about in this lifetime, but yes, the popular currency is in question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337375,"featured_media":20273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[1680,1234,2451],"class_list":["post-20272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-data","tag-crypto","tag-real-estate-news","tag-senate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Crypto-coins-with-law-mallet-representing-ponzi-scheme-and-scam-possibilities.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20274,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20272\/revisions\/20274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}