‘Being a Currency and a Security Are Not Contradictory,’ Crypto Can Be Both: ...

‘Being a Currency and a Security Are Not Contradictory,’ Crypto Can Be Both: ...

Franklin Noll, an academic and monetary historian, has asserted that crypto can be both a security and a currency. Pointing to the history of U.S. money, Noll argues that being both a currency and a security is, in fact, not contradictory. The ‘Infamous’ Continental Dollar Coins Franklin Noll, a U.S.-based monetary historian, has asserted that the history of the U.S. dollar over the years shows that being a currency and a security is not contradictory and that crypto can be both. The assertions by Noll, the president of Noll Historical Consulting, come....


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