{"id":239,"date":"2018-06-15T21:29:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T21:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gdgtfix.com\/?p=239"},"modified":"2018-06-15T21:29:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T21:29:23","slug":"ether-isnt-a-security-who-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gdgtfix.com\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"Ether isn&#8217;t a security? Who knew?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SEC, apparently. They have decided that BitCoin, Ether, and related products are their own unique offering that does not qualify as a security except under certain circumstances, although to my mind that appears to be incorrect, given it floats on an exchange and can be sold for actual currency. At the very least, it acts and behaves in many ways like a security that is traded for dollar denominated items.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/06\/14\/sec-says-ether-isnt-a-security-but-tokens-based-on-ether-can-be\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SEC, apparently. They have decided that BitCoin, Ether, and related products are their own unique offering that does not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gdgtfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/SEC.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lA9R-3R","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":146,"url":"https:\/\/gdgtfix.com\/?p=146","url_meta":{"origin":239,"position":0},"title":"Rowhammering Security","date":"October 26, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"As has been the case recently, holes have been cropping up more and more in Linux and associated devices. Today, security researchers have demonstrated a complete attack against Android phones that can repeatedly and easily punch holes in the security and gain root within minutes. Currently, millions of Android devices\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mobile&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gdgtfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/drammer-demo-800x437.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":111,"url":"https:\/\/gdgtfix.com\/?p=111","url_meta":{"origin":239,"position":1},"title":"Goodbye, Blackberry","date":"October 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Blackberry has announced it will no longer design and sell phones. It will license its name to others (with approval, of course), and instead focused on enterprise security and software, as it has been doing more and more so ever since its phone business collapsed under it. While Blackberry was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mobile&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gdgtfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/porsche-design-p9981-blackberry-smartphone-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gdgtfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gdgtfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gdgtfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gdgtfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gdgtfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gdgtfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/gdgtfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gdgtfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gdgtfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gdgtfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gdgtfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}