Not that I view Reuters as the bastion of truth. It's still controlled by the "Tribe".

But in your own link, you left out the part at the bottom:

While the SEC partly won the case, Torres dealt the regulator a high-profile setback when she ruled that XRP Ripple sold on public cryptocurrency exchanges did not meet the legal definition of a security.

Torres denied the SEC's request to repeal that ruling while the case is in progress. But the regulator may appeal once the judge decides its request for penalties.

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XRP sold to the general public on exchanges was not ruled to be a security. There were no contracts. The same will apply to ETH obviously. I signed no contracts when I mined or bought ETH. The speculation for me was no different than your speculation with BTC. Or someone who buys a baseball card. I also have put a lot more work and sweat equity to acquire ETH than you did with your BTC. But the bottom line is, the ETH I bought or mined was not a security based on the findings of the Ripple / XRP case. That's the precedent.

I will add that the SEC is of course completely corrupt. I know you are looking towards them for selfish, greedy reasons to pump your BTC bags at the expense of other token holders. You already stated that in this thread. So you want the SEC to fuck all other investors (when their stated mission is to protect investors) who don't hold BTC so you can make more money with BTC. Nice. Obviously I am not onboard with that. Not once have I said something like that. I have opined that I think smaller market cap tokens might pump more than larger caps like BTC or ETH. But I don't want to see anyone "lose" money, whichever tokens they are invested in. And I would not champion a corrupt entity like the SEC to go after projects that I am not invested in.

Correct.

The maxipads fear competition.

In a free-market, there will always be competition, choice and alternatives, which is something that certain crypto token fundamentalists fail or refuse to understand.

if you werent stuffing yourself like a thanksgiving turkey in a futile attempt to get big enough, you wouldnt be blowing out your asshole like a flatulent pig

You have the word Muscle in your "name" its strange. I don't force feed, I wait for genuine hunger before eating. So you don't fart? Go and join the angels in heaven 

Preferable anyway, how is a man to let rip as needed.

You let it rip regardless and she thanks you for not sticking her head under the duvet