- According to U.S. Senator Pat Toomey, completely legal and creative cryptocurrencies must be distinguished from FTX unlawful activities.
In his opening remarks at the Senate Banking Committee meeting on Wednesday, U.S. Senator Pat Toomey clarified that the failure of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX is not a judgment of cryptocurrencies.
The false representations made to investors and consumers regarding FTX’s business activities and the improper loan of client assets to an associated organization. The senator agreed that these were terrible and utterly unacceptable.
Should Crypto Be Banned or Paused?
The Pennsylvania senator then addressed calls for a ban on cryptocurrency in the wake of the FTX catastrophe.
He advises us to consider a few instances, especially for those who think this event warrants banning crypto. Misuse of mortgage-related products had a role in the financial crisis of 2008. Did we intend to outlaw mortgages? Obviously not. Retired New Jersey senator John Corzine’s commodity trading business failed as a result of misusing customer cash, including dollars, to make up for business losses. Nobody proposed outlawing the U.S. dollar as the source of the issue.
What was the problem with FTX?
Senator emphasized that with FTX, the equipment employed did not constitute the issue. The issues were exploiting consumer cash, flagrant incompetence, and maybe criminal activity.
The legislator went on to say that some of the coworkers have proposed that they put cryptocurrency on hold while they solve the issue. The completely unrealistic in addition to get misinformed. Cryptocurrency cannot halt until harsh, authoritarian regulations put in place. The technology would just go overseas if attempted.
Are we going to choose to put our Constitution on hold to end cryptocurrency? He went on to say that this is precisely the mentality that has brought this business to the remote, less controlled areas of the planet.
