SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce Tells Crypto Investors to ‘Be an Adult’, Clarifies Securities Transactions
- Hester Peirce, SEC Commissioner and head of the regulator’s crypto taskforce, has told attendees at the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas they need to deal with their crypto losses like adults.
- Peirce suggested that the crypto community has a tendency to want the government to stay away when they’re making profits, but asks for bail-outs when the losses start piling up.
- Peirce also said the securities status of a crypto transaction depends more on the details of the specific deal than the characteristics of the digital assets used.
Living up to her reputation as the ‘Crypto Mom’ Hester Peirce, the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Crypto Taskforce, has dealt out some tough…
