A leading cryptocurrency lawyer says the grounds for the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) offensive against the world’s two largest exchanges, Binance and Coinbase, are “highly debatable”.
MinterEllisonRuddWatts partner Jeremy Muir told Markets with Madison the allegations lodged against the firms this week were, “to a degree,” an attack on the cryptocurrency industry.
“I think it’s not a very constructive way to build a way forward,” he said.
“They [the SEC] are definitely moving ahead of where the the clarity of the law stands.”