Newly released documents show Joseph Lubin brought William Hinam and Vitalik Buterin together before the SEC director’s speech in 2018.
Outrage sparked within the XRP community with some stating that the Hinman speech was actually “The Ether Speech”.
In the latest controversial revelation, oversight watchdog group Empower Oversight released a new batch of documents for a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The documents highlight the deeper involvement of Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin and his blockchain firm ConsenSys in the crypto speech by former SEC Director of Corporation Finance, William Hinman, on June 14, 2018.
This speech has been a source of disagreement in the Ripple case, particularly because the SEC has stated that other cryptocurrencies, like XRP, were also considered unregistered securities. Ripple attorneys stressed much on the Hinman speech of 2018 during its fight with the SEC, as it noted that assets like Ethereum aren’t securities. However, the late
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