{"id":18384,"date":"2025-03-21T05:48:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T05:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=18384"},"modified":"2025-03-21T05:48:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T05:48:53","slug":"bitcoin-mining-activities-dont-breach-federal-securities-laws-sec-clarifies-participants-need-not-register-transactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=18384","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Mining Activities Don&#8217;t Breach Federal Securities Laws: SEC Clarifies Participants Need Not Register Transactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Securities and Exchange Commission clarified its position on cryptocurrency mining activities Thursday, asserting that they do not fall under federal securities laws.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: The SEC\u2019s Division of Corporation Finance stated that proof-of-work mining activities, which involve using computational resources to validate blockchain transactions and getting rewarded, do not involve the offer\u00a0and sale of securities.  As a result, participants in these activities are not obligated\u00a0to register transactions with the\u00a0Commission under the Securities Act\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The SEC\u2019s perspective applied to two categories:\u00a0self (or solo) mining on a PoW network, and mining pools, which combine computational resources to increase their chances of validating transactions.<\/p>\n<p>Notably,\u00a0<strong>Bitcoin<\/strong>\u00a0(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) is the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/25\/03\/44430214\/sec-gives-green-light-to-bitcoin-mining-activities-no-breach-of-federal-securities-laws\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" mining activities don breach federal securities laws: sec clarifies participants need not register transactions>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Securities and Exchange Commission clarified its position on cryptocurrency mining activities Thursday, asserting that they do not fall under federal securities laws. What Happened: The SEC\u2019s Division of Corporation Finance stated that proof-of-work mining activities, which involve using computational resources to validate blockchain transactions and getting rewarded, do not involve the offer\u00a0and sale of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-18384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}