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"And we would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for those meddling kids at the SEC"



They provide a point by point explanation of why this would make it difficult:

* Due to their status as unregistered securities, bond and share tokens would be subject to transfer restrictions, with Intangible Labs responsible for limiting token ownership to accredited investors in the US for the first year after issuance and for performing eligibility checks on international users.

* Enforcing transfer restrictions would require a centralized whitelist, meaning our system would not only lose its censorship resistance, but also that on-chain auctions would have significantly less liquidity.

* Having fewer participants in the on-chain auctions adversely affects the stability of Basis, making Basis intrinsically less attractive to users. Additionally, imposing transfer restrictions on bond and share token auctions materially hurts our ability to build the Basis ecosystem.

Your snarky comment adds nothing constructive to this discussion, and lowers the quality of discussion on hackernews.


Dunno I thought the comment was funny. Humour has value sometimes.




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