8. Public Policy

[@jeromelubezky6434]

Gary learning the meaning of "OG" was the best part of the class.

[@lennon_richardson]

He was OG before we had the term OG

[@majidabbas2165]

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[@priyankarawat3320]

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[@الرادوداحمدالرصافي]

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[@anthonylangston23]

​@@الرادوداحمدالرصافي احب اكل لحم الخنزير اللذيذ واحترام المراة

[@idlewords29]

"Ultimately who sits on the job, mattters" SEC Chairman, Gary Gensler.

[@magnusdunning6113]

Jon Gordon boy were you wrong

[@cauebraga]

31:10 crypto market was so small that year. 2021 hit 3 trillion dollars and now is around 2 trillions. Sometimes we think we lost the opportunities, but this is still the beginning. Blessed will be the ones who believe in this tecnology.

[@Bordelcossin]

Netflix is outdated. That's the new best show to binge watch right now.

[@zorglub7337]

Absolutely what I thought. Actually I'd love them to partner with an academic institution to offer something called Netflix U with many lectures to choose from

[@leonardschofield9913]

Episode 8 in two days

[@JoseRodriguez-xx8hu]

Only 60k views, don't think would make economic sense to try make Netflix quality content for a small % of people who are interested in and frankly not everyone will understand the depth of this. First episode was 3 million.... 8 hours later only 0.06 million people left 😂.

[@jd_lloyd]

@@JoseRodriguez-xx8hu part of that is due to KZbin SEO and the title of this video, although I agree that many will lose interest over time due to this being an excellent but tricky and long seminar series

[@helderlimadarocha1770]

I literally came here after not finding anything good on Netflix 😂

[@ruchadave1932]

Thank you for making available such high quality learning sessions here.

[@NazriB]

Lies again? Drink Beer + Red Wine

[@jamesgithu833]

Monalisa

[@tylermarsh2211]

Free knowledge!! Whose still here !?! Let’s get it

[@luvpreetsingh8020]

Gary Gensler is the OG

[@DontknowwhattoputhereQ]

I'm loving this. So grateful to MIT and Gary!

[@chavesshirlei]

Same here! I think I've never followed a series of lectures online this long with such interest. It's so amazing to have such quality lectures available.

[@andso7068]

@@chavesshirlei Agreed. I wish there were more certified online courses for blockchain technology and its implications.

[@CSWG-d9e]

Thank you MIT & prof. Gary Gensler.

[@sen_503]

Great insight into why regulation may have a role in the world of cryptocurrency, and that the issues faced might be way more intricate than most of us retail investors might have imagined.

[@saugatbaral3036]

Attendance for lecture 8 Prof. You don't have only 85 students now. PS. After finishing all the lecture, I want to re watch again to comprehend all concepts you had talked about.

[@campusseoul]

My colleagues and I are following the policies from the United States and Canada. Gary Gensler mentions the black markets and the dark markets.

[@browning50cal]

When you mine (Bitcoin) it's treated as income, but you claim your cost of mining equipment and power usage as your cost basis to get the actual profit for a given period of time.

[@RiccardoVincelli]

32:03 a smaller market cap doesn't necessarily mean a reduced systemic risk I guess, connectivity ie exposure is the confounding term

[@jmasked5082]

1:10:50 was hoping someone would say "lobbying" was at the top of public policy.

[@samforeman3137]

"i would argue that even some fiat currencies are volatile" - GG

[@mohammadahmadrocks]

Even the way the mit guys title to the videos is AWESOME 🤞

[@benriggan5267]

Thanks Gary, great content, well appreciated.

[@1337treats]

This content is so good! I hope the crypto community can form a coalition to influence policy toward some collective ideal. I worry that, given personnel is policy, these people won't have the knowledge or understanding of what they're writing policies for and we'll be left with a system that is far from the ideal.

[@gujabber2582]

it's getting better

[@antoinejutras-carignan8710]

1:16:17 his concluding tought on asymetric risk. He says bitcoin doesn't give much upside to somebody in charge of a balance sheet in a company, but could loose is job if the transition doesn't go as planned. Micheal Saylor as the majority of his stake in his company, he had huge upside potential for little risk. Micheal Saylor talk about asymetric fight in the Breedlove's series. Micheal is the maximalist version of Gary.

[@CMRHM]

Thanks for connecting Michael saylor with Gary.

[@maskedn0066]

I couldn’t understand can u elaborate

[@andso7068]

@@maskedn0066 If someone managing funds for a firm like Fidelity or Vanguard were to allocate a hefty position in Bitcoin - there's not much profit to gain in the foreseeable future, if things were to go right. However, if that position were to tank, that same manager may very well kiss his career goodbye. This 'low upside high risk' attitude is an accurate depiction of Gensler's minimalist position. But Saylor, who went long and with a dangerously large stake, can be seen as an 'high upside virtually low risk (because it's just going to go up forever, right?)' type of investor. Saylors the bull, Genslers the bear.

[@johnwalbolt]

Might have to go long on GME and Dogecoin

[@bariswheel]

Mr Gary is a champ . Thank you 🙏

[@daswassuup]

Lecture starts 13:58

[@lawniczakjohn]

52:39 Crypto leverage, often times 100:1

[@AB608052]

One of us, either the participant in the class or me, does not understand the Howey test. The participant said citrus groves became securities, that's not how I understood it. Howey sells his citrus groves as a real estate investment, while making a deal to stay on the farm and make money producing fruit for sale. I think essentially, actually nothing has changed for Howey, he is living on the farm making money as before, but now he's received a nice lump of cash from the sale, and that's all. Howey doesn't necessarily have any plans to make the real estate deal profitable for the buyers, but I think not only that, could Howey actually reclaim the property with squatter's rights? They would be farming there for years, with permission from the owner

[@cheppere]

Thoughts on El Salvador's recent Bitcoin policy as it relates to discussion in this class??

[@limsiryuean5040]

My fuckin thoughts exactly! Most of his classes could be classified only as speculations rather than concrete arguments. El Salvador is plagues with gun violence and its ever expanding black market, although its president may be a cryptoboi, he is still trying to crack down on illegal activities even the nation is dealing with a huge debt. There's nothing to take away from this to help El Salvador cuz the lecturer's argument and content is too Americanized, rarely works globally

[@rodrigodiaz1321]

Price transparency .... think of $GME

[@paulwatkins5663]

This comment will be reviewed years later!

[@prula]

The business model of many if not most banks is to do illegal stuff with money and if they get caught, pay 30 cents on the dollar. But Crpytos are know for "illicit activity" .. RIGHT! What about cash?

[@julinop37]

Gary is straight OG

[@claudiaaaaabbb]

Bitcoin price policy is called Jude Law. Have you watched any of his films? A well-known British actor.

[@JAnder7985]

"Let's make America great again" was first used in Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign.

[@ronaldrinker2092]

And better used by Churchill when he said Make Britain Great again

[@chrismulhern82]

@@ronaldrinker2092 Make Britain Great Britain Again ! Which is what Boris Johnson will be saying when Scotland becomes independent under his watch 🙂 Britain = England & Wales Great Britain = England, Wales and Scotland United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland includes all 4 nations.

[@tgifllc]

Original Genslers

[@tommyboy1653]

It is like a craps table at a casino but alot more sketchy because the price of cryptos can go to zero or up fast like FTX ,and it's gone so you might as well go to a casino.But for insiders or those that run the cryptos can siphon off money to live in the Bahamas or Switzerland that also has a bank failure probably tied into this cryptic system .Does a duck float ,yes .Does a crypto float ,yes until it doesn't.

[@lennon_richardson]

OG = Orator Gary

[@eduardocastillo-oi7ve]

when does he Talk about Algorand?

[@bluestarry1606]

This help me with summary for writing exam 😢😂

[@MrFaiqueShakil]

If you observe from last lecture, views have been doubled in this one... Cold Calling Effect.

[@ДанилаБабич-е2р]

Looks like the US crypto policy is a cornerstone and will be eventually a model for the world legal framework. Japan after early adoption on national level now urge for international uniform approach. There are by now all the the spectre of legal regimes for crypto in different countries from total criminal ban like in Iran, Venezuela and China ( except state subsidised Bitcoin mining and Hong Kong based crypto paradise providing capital control free payment channel) up to ignoring entire story like in Russia where they were unable to produce any legislation for years, before FATF asked State Regulators follow through with at least some regulations, as Moscow was far behind all other jurisdictions and did not care much about

[@ilWadjet]

Mr Gary Gensler good job! And thanks. AMC must shine as it should be. The HFs made a wrong investment and now they must rightly pay for their fraudulent damages.

[@elizabethgutierrez8431]

READINGS of each single video: ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-s12-blockchain-and-money-fall-2018/readings/

[@KevinSmith-df5fz]

Tks

[@shymaaarafat1342]

-The PDF file doesn't contain all slides in the video lecture . -He was only not right about his anticipation about China, they completely banned Bitcoin

[@kha_2428]

Gary did say 'Issuers' and NOT 'insurers' but he's thanking the other guy for correcting him. lool

[@danielwilson1105]

He made the typo "insurers" instead of "issuers" on the first bullet point of the slide...

[@Leeviiii758]

Hey makani, welcome back you're a millionaire. 😊

[@meterfeeder]

A robotic duck is still a type of duck.

[@algoriticus]

Don’t be so shy Don’t be so shy …watch this! 😂😂😂

[@drewfein6536]

1:11:30 “If you don’t get your message right, you never get to your analysis.” Chairman Gensler should be running the Democratic Party.

[@alclark10]

No settlement risk, by bypassing the bank!?

[@mhbao123]

He disappoints.

[@curtis9918]

Bitcoin can never be a bridge currency.

[@tommyboy1653]

3 years later ,the financial stability is walking like a duck with SVB and how about an audit trail of things like FTX moving crypto offshore to Bahamas with ease and apparently no oversight as billions disappear with little or no attention until after its withdrawn.Does this cause a loss in con fidence.And how about money laundering and even political donations,and now it's actually spread into the system causing bank issues and failures in dozens of banks now needing bailouts.

[@thedabbler8453]

Who else is watching this after the FTX collapse?

[@airy0]

Saw this in my recommendation

[@mrjeff4832]

Interesting how he’s called XRP a crypto currency in his MIT lectures but now that he’s SEC Chairman, XRP is a security. What a steamy load of shit.

[@hiddenusernot]

He assumed the role in April 2021 but the XRP lawsuit was filed in 2020, so actually looking good for XRP

[@copytrader]

MIT guys pretend not to know dark market?!

[@isaisalamanca7657]

Prof. Gensler pretending like the US navy didn't create the TOR browser.

[@felicityc]

deniable plausibility

[@Perfectmyself]

OG

[@neerajkulkarni6506]

Original gangstaa

[@devonrd]

I wonder why the concept of "intrinsic value" in itself was not challanged in the class. In my view, nothing has "intrinsic value": the value of an object or service is always relative to a huge number of factors (location/demographics/time of day). Perhaps I misunderstand the idea of "intrinsic value", but even something like a piece of steak is not intrinsically valuable to everybody (not to those who are already satiated, as well as those who are vegetarian). In other words: I feel that value is always part of a relationship, and to say that something is "intrinsically valuable" is to ignore that relationship. Everything is extrinsically valuable insofar as it provides utility.

[@limsiryuean5040]

I agree, monetary systems are an extension of human relations

[@palashkabirj7132]

Desing meeting call video

[@mohammedaasri2774]

Thank you so much

[@ВалерийШклярик-д2з]

Хаккан ВЫ? )

[@alclark10]

It’s a “Tax Collecting Duck”

[@DocDanTheGuitarMan]

Those incumbents weren’t too worried about breaking the law leading up to the GFC.

[@Web3V]

31:05

[@shafiulismam5334]

is this gary or rob

[@mahinshek6790]

SAWAN 😍😍😍😍

[@ВалерийШклярик-д2з]

Я Вас вспомнил и узнал.... Э т о Валерий

[@BANYAT_W]

Thank you

[@curtis9918]

Xrp is the bridge currency. Bitcoin is old slow and unprofitable

[@JamesAyton]

unprofitable for who?

[@imranatique9841]

social politic s and public. use on politic s policy use in public. take social policy in politic .use behind s behaver s

[@brainstormingsharing1309]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@alclark10]

They want tax paid at source?

[@TirandoADar]

I'm making the 1k likes difference. Remember.

[@hareram8875]

Number bhejo sir

[@patrickblair2818]

Seems almost Socratic ...

[@rento3280]

Mr burns xddxdxdxdxdxxdxdxd

[@elliot1784]

one word: Dogecoin :)

[@superiorgazellusmaximus3906]

bought the top? lmao

[@giuniorcandido177]

Gary whitewashes transparency of goverrment in health care...lol

[@jordiaralleida9857]

teacher's volume is so low, very hard to hear. I hear better to students.

[@tobysmart2580]

Why should anyone trust this guy

[@dibparada]

Credentials

[@tobysmart2580]

@@dibparada if they we’re good, he would’ve seen all the bs and dismissed this bs law suit especially now 5 months in and no proof of sh**