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Ephrat Livni, a DealBook business and policy reporter at the New York Times, discusses Coinbase\u2019s fight with the SEC over its Lend product and El Salvador\u2019s adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender. Show highlights:\n why Coinbase is unhappy with what it calls the SEC\u2019s \u201csketchy\u201d behavior\n how Coinbase\u2019s Lend product is structured and why it might be a security\n why Ephrat considers Coinbase\u2019s reaction to the SEC\u2019s decision on Lend to be \u201ctrolling\u201d\n what we can learn from SEC chair Gary Gensler\u2019s letters with Senator Elizabeth Warren\n what legal precedence the SEC is leaning on in its decision about Lend\n how to explain the SEC\u2019s choice to not meet with Coinbase in Washington\n why Ephrat thinks Brian Armstrong sounds entitled\n Why even pro-Bitcoin groups in the US take issue with El Salvador\u2019s adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender\n why Ephrat thinks Bitcoin is not a practical payment mechanism for El Salvadorans\n how El Salvadorans have reacted to the law\n why Ephrat believes El Salvador\u2019s mandate to accept BTC is philosophically problematic for Bitcoiners\n \xa0\n Thank you to our sponsors!\n Crypto.com: https://crypto.onelink.me/J9Lg/unconfirmedcardearnfeb2021\xa0\xa0\xa0\n Digital Asset Research: https://digitalassetresearch.com\xa0\n Sorare: https://sorare.com\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\n \xa0\n Episode Links\n \xa0\n Ephrat Livni\n Twitter: https://twitter.com/el72champs\xa0\n New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/by/ephrat-livni\xa0\n \xa0\n Coinbase\n Brian Armstrong tweet thread: https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1409555338836078592\n\n Coinbase blog: https://blog.coinbase.com/the-sec-has-told-us-it-wants-to-sue-us-over-lend-we-have-no-idea-why-a3a1b6507009\xa0\n Coinbase Lend: https://www.coinbase.com/lend\xa0\n Howey and Reves test: https://securities-law-blog.com/2014/11/25/what-is-a-security-the-howey-test-and-reves-test/\xa0\n \xa0\n Bitcoin and El Salvador\n CoinDesk coverage:\n \n https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2021/09/07/as-el-salvador-enacts-bitcoin-law-locals-remain-confused-about-implementation/\xa0\n \n Wall Street Journal coverage: https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-comes-to-el-salvador-first-country-to-adopt-crypto-as-national-currency-11631005200\n\n CNN coverage: https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/06/business/bitcoin-price-el-salvador-intl-hnk/index.html\n\n CBS coverage: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bitcoin-el-salvador-legal-currency/#:~:text=As%20legal%20tender%20in%20El,subject%20to%20capital%20gains%20tax.\xa0\n Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/technology/it-guy-in-chief-president-tries-fix-el-salvadors-bitcoin-woes-2021-09-08/\xa0\n Jerry Brito\u2019s opinion: https://twitter.com/jerrybrito/status/1405660809024393221\xa0\n Survey results: \u200b\u200bhttps://www.reuters.com/technology/majority-salvadorans-do-not-want-bitcoin-poll-shows-2021-09-02/\xa0\n \nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices