Coy Garrison, former counsel to SEC Commissioner Hester Pierce and partner at Steptoe & Johnson, discusses the role of regulation in the crypto industry and what the SEC could be doing to make crypto a better space. Show notes:
- how Coy started working with crypto
- why Coy decided to leave the SEC
- why recent comments by SEC chair Gary Gensler made him hopeful in how the SEC approaches crypto
- how the crypto industry has grown and evolved over the years
- whether the regulations are impeding innovation in the crypto space
- how stablecoins should be regulated
- what Coy thinks about the UST collapse
- what is the SEC’s take on decentralization
- whether ETH is centralized and whether it is a commodity
- why the SEC has not approved a BTC spot ETF
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