美国证券交易委员会“从未说过”比特币和以太币是证券，即将卸任的主席加里·根斯勒 (Gary Gensler) 周二告诉雅虎财经。

这一断言是在诉讼后关于全球市值第二大加密货币是否是证券的问题上反复提出的。

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.

即将离任的主席加里·詹斯勒 (Gary Gensler) 周二告诉雅虎财经，美国证券交易委员会从未断言比特币和以太币是证券。

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.

这一断言是在诉讼之后反复讨论按市值计算的全球第二大加密货币是否是一种证券，并指出了立法者关于该代币是否属于 SEC 管辖范围的问题。

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 都没有说过比特币是一种证券。

"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."

“我们没有说以太坊是一种证券，”他在雅虎财经上表示。 “我认为比特币和以太坊的投资者，正如你所说的那样，在交易所交易基金和产品之前就可以接触到这些。”

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

当雅虎财经要求澄清比特币和以太币不是证券时，Gensler 给出了详细的解释。

"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.

“我说过，我们，美国证券交易委员会，从未说过它们是证券，”Gensler 说，并补充说，由于他的工作性质，他不能直接说这两种代币都不是证券。

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.

詹斯勒的这一说法是在他计划辞去职务不到一周前发表的，就在当选总统唐纳德·特朗普就职典礼之前。据《财富》2024 年 3 月报道，在他领导 SEC 期间，该机构向与以太坊基金会打交道的公司发出了传票。一个月后，Consensys 起诉 SEC，并表示该机构前执法部门主管批准了一项传票。该倡议称为“2023 年“以太坊 2.0”问题的正式调查令”。

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.

立法者还要求 Gensler 澄清以太币是否是一种证券。众议院金融服务委员会前主席帕特里克·麦克亨利 (Patrick McHenry) 在 2023 年 4 月的听证会上敦促詹斯勒提供更多澄清信息。

“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?"

“让我休息一下，来吧，”麦克亨利在多次试图让 Gensler 提供有关以太坊的更多细节后说道。 “这里缺乏明确性，你至少能同意这一点吗？”

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

2024 年 1 月，SEC 批准了比特币 ETF 上市，随后又批准了以太坊 ETF 上市。

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

詹斯勒周二表示，投资者通过交易所交易产品获得了更好的保护，例如较低的费用、监督和信息披露。

"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 在雅虎财经上表示：“超过 70%，甚至 80% 的加密市场与比特币和以太坊有关。” “我确实关注了另一部分，即这 10,000 到 15,000 个其他代币，它们之所以能够真正持续下去，是因为投资者实际上是在投资一个项目。他们需要适当的披露。法律规定，你应该获得该披露后，他们目前不合规。”

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

周二早些时候，Gensler 在 CNBC 节目中指出，比特币可能与数千种其他加密货币不同。

"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.

“比特币是一种高度投机性、波动性的资产，但全球有 70 亿人，70 亿人想要交易它，就像我们拥有黄金一万年一样，我们拥有比特币 – 未来它也可能是其他东西，”詹斯勒说。