Matt Levine, Columnist

The SEC Comes for Crypto

Also Flo Rida at private equity parties.

“A decent rule of thumb,” I wrote in March, “is that all cryptocurrency exchanges are doing crimes, and if you’re lucky your exchange is doing only process crimes.” Like:

These things are not especially correlated because, again, every crypto exchange is violating US securities law. “Oooh I shouldn’t trust my money to those guys because they are violating US law”: Sure, yes, a reasonable position that would save you from a lot of crypto disasters, but also one that would prevent you from trading crypto entirely. Your choice!