美國證券交易委員會「從未說過」比特幣和以太幣是證券，即將卸任的主席加里·根斯勒 (Gary Gensler) 週二告訴雅虎財經。

這項斷言是在訴訟後關於全球市值第二大加密貨幣是否是證券的問題上反覆提出的。

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has never asserted that bitcoin and ether are securities, outgoing Chair Gary Gensler told Yahoo Finance on Tuesday.

即將離任的主席加里·詹斯勒 (Gary Gensler) 週二告訴雅虎財經，美國證券交易委員會從未斷言比特幣和以太幣是證券。

That assertion follows back and forth on whether the world's second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization is a security following litigation and pointed questions from lawmakers on whether the token falls under the SEC's jurisdiction.

這項斷言是在訴訟之後反覆討論按市值計算的全球第二大加密貨幣是否是一種證券，並指出了立法者關於該代幣是否屬於 SEC 管轄範圍的問題。

Gensler said neither he nor his predecessor, former chair Jay Clayton, has said that bitcoin is a security.

Gensler 表示，他和他的前任、前主席 Jay Clayton 都沒有說過比特幣是一種證券。

"We haven't said Ethereum is a security," he said on Yahoo Finance. "I think investors in Bitcoin and Ethereum, the masses as you said, had access to these prior to the exchange-traded funds and products."

「我們沒有說以太坊是一種證券，」他在雅虎財經上表示。 “我認為比特幣和以太坊的投資者，正如你所說的那樣，在交易所交易基金和產品之前就可以接觸到這些。”

When asked to clarify by Yahoo Finance that bitcoin and ether are not securities, Gensler got granular.

當雅虎財經要求澄清比特幣和以太幣不是證券時，Gensler 給出了詳細的解釋。

"I said that we, the SEC, have never said they're securities," Gensler said, adding that he can't say outright that both tokens are not securities due to the nature of his job.

「我說過，我們，美國證券交易委員會，從未說過它們是證券，」Gensler 說，並補充說，由於他的工作性質，他不能直接說這兩種代幣都不是證券。

Gensler's assertion comes less than a week before he plans to step down from his post, just ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration. During his time leading the SEC, the agency issued subpoenas to firms that dealt with the Ethereum Foundation, according to reports from Fortune in March 2024. A month later, Consensys sued the SEC and said the agency's former director of the division of enforcement approved an initiative called the “Formal Order of Investigation in the matter of “Ethereum 2.0” in 2023.

詹斯勒的這一說法是在他計劃辭去職務不到一周前發表的，就在當選總統唐納德·川普就職典禮之前。根據《財星》2024 年3 月報道，在他領導SEC 期間，該機構向與以太坊基金會打交道的公司發出了傳票。項傳票。

Lawmakers have also asked Gensler for clarification on whether ether is a security. Former House Financial Services Committee Chair Patrick McHenry pressed Gensler for more clarity during a hearing in April 2023.

立法者還要求 Gensler 澄清以太幣是否是一種證券。眾議院金融服務委員會前主席 Patrick McHenry 在 2023 年 4 月的聽證會上敦促詹斯勒提供更多澄清資訊。

“Give me a break, come on,” said McHenry following repeated attempts to get Gensler to provide further detail on ether. “There’s a lack of clarity here, can you at least agree with that?"

「讓我休息一下，來吧，」麥克亨利在多次試圖讓 Gensler 提供有關以太坊的更多細節後說道。 “這裡缺乏明確性，你至少能同意這一點嗎？”

In January 2024, the SEC approved the listing of Bitcoin ETFs and, later, Ethereum ETFs.

2024 年 1 月，SEC 批准了比特幣 ETF 上市，隨後又批准了以太坊 ETF 上市。

Investors received better protections with exchange-traded products, such as lower fees, surveillance and disclosures, Gensler said on Tuesday.

詹斯勒週二表示，投資者透過交易所交易產品獲得了更好的保護，例如較低的費用、監督和資訊揭露。

"Over 70%, maybe 80% of the crypto market is related to Bitcoin and Ethereum," Gensler said on Yahoo Finance. "I really take a look at the other part, these 10,000 to 15,000 other tokens, which can only really persist because investors are investing, in essence, betting on a project. They need the proper disclosure. The law says you're supposed to get that disclosure and they're not currently compliant."

Gensler 在雅虎財經上表示：“超過 70%，甚至 80% 的加密市場與比特幣和以太坊有關。” 「我確實關注了另一部分，即這 10,000 到 15,000 個其他代幣，它們之所以能夠真正持續下去，是因為投資者實際上是在投資一個項目。他們需要適當的披露。法律規定，你應該獲得該披露後，他們目前不合規。

Earlier on Tuesday on CNBC, Gensler pointed to bitcoin as potentially different from the thousands of other cryptocurrencies.

週二早些時候，Gensler 在 CNBC 節目中指出，比特幣可能與數千種其他加密貨幣不同。

"Bitcoin is a highly speculative, volatile asset, but with seven billion people around the globe, seven billion people want to trade it just like we do have gold for 10,000 years, we have bitcoin – it might be something else in the future as well," Gensler said.

「比特幣是一種高度投機性、波動性的資產，但全球有70 億人，70 億人想要交易它，就像我們擁有黃金一萬年一樣，我們擁有比特幣– 未來它也可能是其他東西，」詹斯勒說。