Crypto May No Longer Be Treated Like Penny Stocks Under SEC Plan
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed narrowing Exchange Act Rule 15c2-11 so that it applies only to equity securities, a technical change that could carry outsized significance for crypto market structure. For digital assets, the proposal signals a more tailored regulatory approach after years of trying to force crypto into frameworks built for […]
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“I don’t think there’s any amount of research that you can do to protect yourself from these ultra low cap [assets], except getting in really, really early,” said Jordan Belfort. Former stockbroker Jordan Belfort, known colloquially as the “Wolf of Wall Street” has likened low market cap crypto assets to penny stocks due to their extreme price volatility. Penny stocks refer to highly speculative shares priced under $1 from small and unknown companies. Generally they either fetch massive returns for investors or crash and burn dramatically. Belfort's rise to prominence in the 90s and....
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Bitcoin and Crypto's are like no other currency or asset out there - they are the penny stocks of today and instead of moving on the machinations of a Wolf of Wall Street boiler room, they move on the whims of everyone and anyone as well as the charts of the technical analysts and the press. The “Holy Grail” of trading is knowing something is going to happen before it happens – so Gordon Gecko’s listen up. The world over, analysts investors and traders are always looking to find the best way to be more sure of what tomorrow brings, with black boxes churning through petabytes of data to....
Collecting physical Bitcoin memorabilia is quite a fun experience. Not every collector wants to get their hands on these items from a monetary perspective, as there are many bits and bobs to collect which hold no intrinsic value on their own. The Bitcoin Penny is one of those commemorative coins that are cheap, have no Bitcoin value stored on them, nor....