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The co-founder of the original memecoin is calling out Gary Gensler after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair said Bitcoin (BTC<\/a>) is not a security.<\/p>\n In a new interview<\/a> with CNBC, SEC chair Gensler states clearly that BTC is not a security.<\/p>\n \u201cAs it relates to Bitcoin, my predecessor and I have said that it\u2019s not a security.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Bitcoin\u2019s designation as a \u201cnon-security\u201d places regulation of the flagship crypto outside the SEC\u2019s jurisdiction.<\/p>\n Responding to the news, Dogecoin (DOGE<\/a>) creator Billy Markus took to the social media platform X to call out Gensler<\/a> for not giving DOGE the same classification.<\/p>\n \u201che should say dogecoin isn\u2019t a security also as it is mostly bitcoin code and works exactly the same way\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Gensler has yet to respond to the vocal DOGE co-founder.<\/p>\n This is not the first time Markus has criticized Gensler\u2019s performance as SEC chair. In December of last year, Markus responded<\/a> to a Gensler claim that fraud and noncompliance are rife within the digital assets industry with some harsh words.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019ve never laid out any actual rules, you just hand wave. You\u2019re basically useless in every single way.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n DOGE is trading for $0.117 at time of writing, up 11% in the last week.<\/p>\n Don’t Miss a Beat \u2013 Subscribe<\/a> to get email alerts delivered directly to your inbox <\/span><\/em>  <\/p>\n Generated Image: Midjourney<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The co-founder of the original memecoin is calling out Gary Gensler after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair said Bitcoin (BTC) is not a security. In a new interview with CNBC, SEC chair Gensler states clearly that BTC is not a security. \u201cAs it relates to Bitcoin, my predecessor and I have said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[201,248,251,246,257,255,250,252,247,253,249,256,254],"class_list":["post-356839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-others","tag-blockchain","tag-bsc","tag-chainlink","tag-coin","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-gta","tag-looks-rare","tag-oracle","tag-polygon","tag-quickswap","tag-safe-moon","tag-wallet","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356842,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356839\/revisions\/356842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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