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LBRY 🚀

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LBRY does to publishing what Bitcoin does to money.

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@LBRYcom

LBRY 🚀

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If you're in the crypto space and you're facing action from the SEC, we want to help. We will give you as much information and help as we can about how the SEC behaves, privately and confidentially. Message us on Signal at 352-234-4746. We're stronger together.

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LBRY 🚀

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@elonmusk During Covid, Apple demanded our apps filter some search terms from being returned. If we did not filter the terms, our apps would not be allowed in the store. Apple may make good products, but they have been opposed to free speech for some time.

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@elonmusk Apple disallowed almost anything related to Covid, especially vaccines or human origins of the virus. We had to build a list of over 20 terms to not show results for, only on Apple devices. Apple also later rejected us because users included Pepe images in videos.

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@RepMaxineWaters @SBF_FTX Hey Maxine Waters, we'd like to be treated nicely by the government the way criminals like SBF are. Can you let us know how much to write a check for and where to send it? Feel free to DM if you want to keep this private.

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We lost. Sorry everyone.

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increasingly looking like that while the SEC had a team of staff working to crush us, a tiny actor and one of the actual honest ones, FTX was stealing billions and @GaryGensler was taking the time to personally meet with them it's all just so rotten

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Sam Bankman-Fried spent $31,000,000 on politicians last year. We spent $0. That's the difference.

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Coinbase should relist $XRP. Under the SEC vs LBRY standard, $XRP sold by secondary holders is not a security.

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LBRY 🚀

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The most fucked up part of this whole situation is that even after five years of fighting and a court ruling, we still honestly do not know how to legally launch a public blockchain in the US. Does anyone?

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The SEC contact us about this tweet and asked us to take it down. Like this comment if you think the SEC should go fuck themselves.

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The SEC specifically requested that we stopped sharing with the public what it is like to be investigated by the SEC as part of their settlement proposal.

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By far the best chance for cryptocurrency in the United States is Ripple. There are other crypto players in the US that could be playing offense, but aren't. This means it's basically all on $XRP to save us all.

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We would be happy to speak before Congress about the corrupt and likely illegal behavior of the SEC under @GaryGensler cc @RepTomEmmer

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Suppose the SEC wanted to do the most possible damage to cryptocurrency. It would police good actors while letting bad actors slide and then blow up, then use the failure as a reason they need even more power to police good actors. Suppose.

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LBRY 🚀

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Our opening offer for a settlement is the complete abolition of the SEC and 10 years in jail for Gary Gensler

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LBRY 🚀

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We met with SEC recently. We told them we'd do anything to have same legal status as Ethereum. Pay every dollar back. Burn all cryptocurrency we own. Let everyone go and dissolve company entirely. Anything. They literally laughed in our faces. Evil, despicable monsters.

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Really regretting that we didn't bribe the SEC like Ethereum did. If you get the chance to bribe government officials, please do it. It's worth every penny.

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LBRY 🚀

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In 4 years of pursuit by SEC: We've spent millions of $$, provided millions of pages of documents, and spent 10,000+ man hours In all that time, SEC has never answered a question or provided feedback of any kind We want to follow the law, but no one will tell us what it is

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LBRY 🚀

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. @elonmusk please ban @GaryGensler for misinformation 🙏

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All secondary crypto sales are not securities offerings! 🥳🍾🚀 EVERYONE owes Ripple for this win that they generated for the entire industry. Thank you for patching the boat @bgarlinghouse @chrislarsensf @s_alderoty @johnedeaton1

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We'd like to congratulate Ethereum, a completely finished protocol as of 2014 that was never bought by anyone for investment purposes, on their pending upgrade to Ethereum 2.0 later today

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. @elonmusk please buy the SEC 🙏

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Playing nice with the SEC for 4 years has gotten us absolutely nowhere. We're done being nice to these monsters.

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LBRY 🚀

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Since any information given privately to the SEC ends up leaking, we'd like to be upfront about the fact that LBRY Inc. will likely be dead in the near future. We expect the LBRY mission to continue on, but the company itself has been killed by legal and SEC debts.

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LBRY 🚀

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. @elonmusk please buy the SEC and fire 75% of them

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We do not respect the SEC.

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SEC: your token looks like a security LBRY: oh no is there anything we can do to change that? SEC: yes but you have to guess what it is LBRY: can you give us any hints? SEC: no LBRY: *guesses* SEC: you guessed wrong now we punish you

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Literally no one at LBRY is receiving a paycheck right now. We're that broke. Meanwhile the SEC is alleging we have millions in hidden money and is continuing to try to draw things out just to punish us extralegally. They're so fucking disgusting.

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LBRY 🚀

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The full ruling in the SEC vs LBRY case can be read here. The language used here sets an extraordinarily dangerous precedent that makes every cryptocurrency in the US a security, including Ethereum.

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SEC vs LBRY Summary Judgement Ruling (We Lost)

The ruling in the case SEC vs LBRY case is out and LBRY, as well as the entire cryptocurrency industry, have lost.

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Every SEC official should have a 24/7 camera going on them at work, just like cops.

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Anyone enjoying themselves exchanging some non-securities on secondary markets today?

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LBRY 🚀

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HELP US SAVE CRYPTO The future of crypto in US is at risk. The SEC are suing us and saying LBC is a security - it’s not! #helplbrysavecrypto

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The SEC has requested the transcript of our most recent hearing be sealed from the public for ninety days. Someone knows they fucked up.

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We're not trying to get anyone in trouble but this is literally what we're being sued by the SEC for. Hard not to believe there is some corruption involved when Ethereum can state this openly in 2022 without penalty.

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Joseph Lubin

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We've long maintained a significant treasury of ETH, stablecoins and other crypto tokens, and we are actively using our own financial infrastructure to put these assets to work in DeFi protocols and via staking in anticipation of Ethereum’s merge to Proof of Stake.

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Congressmen that were elected via stolen funds given to them by a conman are going to pass a bill written by that same conman, using the conman's conning as justification. It is impossible to have too low of an opinion of the US government.

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Based on SEC behavior, there are two known legal ways to launch a public blockchain: - Anonymously in 2009 - Bribery

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@GaryGensler We'll give you the $20,000,000 you're demanding of us if you reply with a clear explanation of how to launch a public blockchain in the United States. This is a serious offer.

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important message from our supporters

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Cryptocurrency needs to get back to its roots. Anonymous internet cash. Decentralized autonomous organizations. Prediction markets. Uncensorable content sharing. Fuck the centralized and regulated bullshit. Build things the government can't stop.

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SEC: the rules are clear Coinbase: can we read them? SEC: no Coinbase: *guesses rules* SEC: straight to jail

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Yesterday, Gary Gensler testified the SEC would need another ten years before they could release public rules on blockchain. Make no mistake: Gary Gensler is out to destroy cryptocurrency in the United States

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We're going to lick our wounds for a little bit but we're not giving up. We've got a bright team, tens of millions of pieces of content, hundreds of thousands of creators, and one of the most popular web3 apps in the world. The best is yet to come 🚀

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Vitalik says XRP and its users deserve to be wrecked by the government - not for doing something wrong, but because Ethereum was insulted Disappointing take from a guy who presents himself as intellectually consistent and principled

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@TrustlessState XRP already lost their right to protection when they tried to throw us under the bus as "China-controlled" imo:

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If you have a shit product, you'll do anything to stop competition.

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@s_alderoty Great news about the Hinman documents Completely unrelated but it is easy to publish something to LBRY completely anonymously

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LBRY has filed a Notice of Appeal against the SEC.

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LBRY Inc. is winding down. The LBRY network is unaffected. Odysee and other assets will undergo a legal process to satisfy debts, but Odysee has a bright future ahead. Thank you to everyone who fought with us for online freedom. A final goodbye post is in the first reply.

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Yesterday, the judge granted the SEC's request to extend the investigation into LBRY for several more months. This means we'll get to celebrate our five-year anniversary of being investigated by the SEC 🍾

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LBRY 🚀

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In the SEC vs LBRY case, the SEC is specifically alleging that because we spent money to improve the already functional LBRY protocol, that makes $LBC a security. If we had sold all $LBC, kept the money and went home, it wouldn't be a security. Talk about messed up incentives!

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10x, very nice

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PREDICTION: The SEC will spend more time and money attempting to thwart @elonmusk 's acquisition of Twitter than they will creating clear rules for blockchain. Because the SEC are highly political actors, not neutral regulators.

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Now that a federal court has mostly ruled in favor of Ripple, @GaryGensler and other SEC officials should personally apologize to @bgarlinghouse and all Ripple employees and users. That would be the right and honorable thing to do.

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The SEC: it should be illegal for someone to buy $1 worth of LBC without permission from bureaucrats because of the financial risk involved Meanwhile everyday in Vegas:

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The greatest revenge the cryptocurrency space can get on the SEC would be to make them completely irrelevant.

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People in cryptocurrency need to stop claiming that Gary Gensler doesn't protect investors when he's done a tremendous job serving the people who have invested in him.

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The SEC read this tweet in court yesterday. We stand by it 100%. We have not met a single honest or fair actor in the SEC. We have met numerous liars and psychopaths. Hide absolutely everything you can from them (legally) and never cooperate or talk to the SEC.

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LBRY 🚀

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This is the biggest call we made wrong. We thought by being honest and open the SEC would go after us last, but they actually went after us first because we made it easy. We cannot emphasize enough how important it is to obscure your activity from US regulatory agencies.

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@GaryGensler A scam artist could be anyone, even the leader of a regulatory agency.

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Today we're going to ensure cryptocurrency remains legal to build and use in the United States! When LBRY wins, blockchain wins.

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The Gary Gensler SEC is responsible for the destruction of billions of dollars and the bankruptcy of thousands of innocent Americans. It's not enough to just fix the problem. They must be held accountable.

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The fate of legal cryptocurrency in America rests with a Congress and President that received hundreds of millions of stolen money from a cryptoscammer and hasn't given it back.

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Prediction: Gary Gensler will not be running the SEC by January 31st, 2023

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As everyone knows, the Ethereum upgrade was purely charitable work by the Ethereum developers Not a single Ethereum token was sold to pay a single dollar of income to any developer who worked on the Ethereum 2.0 upgrade If this wasn't true, the SEC would sue them

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@GaryGensler Gary: the rules are clear Blockchain industry: can we read them? Gary: no Industry: can you give us any hints? Gary: no Industry: *guesses at rules* Gary: you guessed wrong, go to jail

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The Ripple case should end the SEC vs Coinbase lawsuit.

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Many are calling yesterday a victory for LBRY, but we haven't won yet. It doesn't matter if the judge says $LBC is not a security if third-parties (exchanges, etc) are still too terrified of the SEC to work with it. That's the real test.

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One time we paid $1 for $1 in stable coins so that we could spend them as $1 later, but evidently we were expecting profits Thanks for teaching us so much about our own motivations, SEC

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Prometheum was just awarded a Special Purpose Broker-Dealer license from the SEC. This license was denied to Coinbase, Robinhood, and all other US exchanges. Promotheum is the only exchange to support the SEC's kafkaesque policy agenda. It has financial ties to key Democrats.

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At last minute, the SEC wants to pause our court case for another 8 weeks to collect more "evidence". The case has already been open for 196 weeks. We've complied every step of the way, providing over 1,000,000 pages of documents. These people are evil.

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Justice delayed is justice denied.

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We know everyone is eager for an outcome of our case, but we have no news, sorry

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The SEC just said in verbal argument in our case that they have NOT asserted that Bitcoin or Ethereum is not a security They're saying the Hinman speech is his "personal opinion"

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Federal filings in New Hampshire are limited to 25 pages. The SEC's motion for summary judgement is 60 pages 🤦‍♂️ How are such incompetent people in charge of such an important industry?

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Blow the whistle, @HesterPeirce

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The SEC getting publicly dragged by its own commissioner 😂 Even by government standards, the SEC is a special class of dysfunctional.

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@SBF_FTX Reminder that once someone has revealed themselves to be a sociopathic pathological liar that they will continue to act sociopathically and will continue to lie

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Millions of Americans are buying, selling, and using blockchain assets. None of these Americans are going to the SEC and asking to be protected. So who is the SEC actually serving? It's obviously not the American people.

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our simple, humble request is to be regulated by people who aren't criminals

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@elonmusk If Apple ever pressures you to ban anyone from Twitter, ban them *only* from the iOS app and let all Apple users know. They can shake their fists at the open protocols of the internet.

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We just spoke with our counsel. Everyone was expecting a ruling in the SEC case by today but the judge has not provided one. The judge is now overdue on his own stated timeline, but that's his prerogative. Until then, there's nothing to do but continue to Wait.

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Content you publish to YouTube is owned by YouTube. Content you publish to Twitter is owned by Twitter. Content you publish to LBRY is owned by you.

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"come in and talk to us"

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We've been investigated by the SEC for 1,610 days With appeals it will be another 1,000 days What an absolute embarrassment! Our love and support goes out to anyone who has ever had to deal with the American judicial system

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The SEC will probably pat themselves on the back when they read this, but unless things change, you'd be better off starting a blockchain company in North Korea than America.

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Cryptocurrency really is dying in the US. The government actually is winning. If we die but people wake up in time to change this, it's still a win.

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The judge on the SEC vs LBRY case works part-time and can take as long as he wants. An elderly part-time employee that doesn't understand blockchain will be determining the future of it for all of America. That's just how it works and there's not much we can do about it.

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Now that FTX is arrested, it's time for the next step: Congress and the SEC will use FTX's illegal fraud to crackdown on crypto and do other things they already wanted to do that have absolutely nothing to do with what caused FTX. Never let a good crisis go to waste!

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This is an absolute lie. We have BEGGED the SEC to answer questions or give us any feedback. They never answered a single question or gave us any steps we could take to correct anything. They did use voluntarily given evidence to sue us. DO NOT TALK TO THE SEC!

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wEeZiE {X}💭John Deaton 4 Senate

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@LBRYcom @jeremykauffman this true?

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Complete bullshit. Not sure why we're having a trial when the SEC doesn't even have to follow the rules of the court.

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James K. Filan 🇺🇸🇮🇪

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#XRPCommunity #SECGov v. #Ripple #XRP #LBRY In a Text Only Order, the judge in the #SECGov v. #LBRY case has granted the SEC’s Motion to Exceed the page limit and denied #LBRY ’s Motion to Strike. The Order is below. It’s not clear yet how/if this will impact the trial schedule.

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Does Gary Gensler belong in prison? Unquestionably. But Gensler is neither the beginning nor the end of the problem, and it's a mistake to think a simple leadership change will end the anti-American and corrupt behavior of the SEC.

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However you feel about social media -- and it has its downsides -- the ability for the public to ratio the most powerful people in the world is unquestionably Good

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SBF gave millions to politicians and bureaucrats so he wasn't investigated. We are honest about how these people behave and are sometimes mean to them online so they crush us. It really is that simple.

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@elonmusk @bgarlinghouse The SEC is mad at us for using a rocket ship emoji 🚀 You must have triggered the SEC pretty bad 😂

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The final judgement in SEC vs LBRY is out. In accordance with the court's order and our promises, we expect to spend the next several months winding LBRY Inc. down entirely. As to what happens to LBRY from here, well, that's up to you.

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This is the biggest call we made wrong. We thought by being honest and open the SEC would go after us last, but they actually went after us first because we made it easy. We cannot emphasize enough how important it is to obscure your activity from US regulatory agencies.

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and then send people home with a court date.” “After all, if we continued with our regulation-by-enforcement approach at our current pace, we would approach 400 years before we got through the tokens that are allegedly securities.” Full speech:

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The last* filing in our case is due today. The SEC is going to hate* it. *🤞

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The SEC repeatedly cited a single sentence from an unpaid volunteer moderator in our community chat as evidence that LBC was a security. Meanwhile, the SEC argues in Coinbase filing that even statements from senior staff of the SEC about securities law don't mean anything.

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It is specifically LBRY Inc that must die, the LBRY protocol and blockchain will continue.

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