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  • “You’d have to shut down the Internet” to ban Bitcoin, says SEC’s Hester Peirce

    04/10/2021 8:35:52 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 60 replies
    Cryptoslate.com ^ | APRIL 10, 2021 AT 2:27 PM | Liam Frost
    Any of the government’s efforts to ban Bitcoin would be “foolish,” said Hester Peirce (aka “Crypto Mom”), a very Bitcoin-friendly commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), during a MarketWatch virtual conference earlier this week. “I think we were past that point very early on because you’d have to shut down the Internet,” Peirce said, adding, “I don’t see how you could ban it. You could certainly make the effort. It would be very hard to stop people from [trading Bitcoin]. So I think it would be a foolish thing for the government to try to do that.”The...