How to Determine If a Cryptocurrency Is a Security

The video discusses how to determine if a blockchain token is a security using the Howey test, which involves evaluating investment, common enterprise, profit expectation, and third-party reliance. Director Hindman's speech provides insights into the SEC's view on Ether and other cryptocurrencies. The video also covers criteria for classifying tokens as securities, emphasizing that labeling a token as a utility does not exempt it from being a security. It highlights the importance of decentralization in avoiding security classification.

What is the Howey test and what are its four prongs?

How does the SEC determine whether a cryptocurrency is a security?

What factors might indicate that a digital currency or token is a security?

What does it mean for a token to have 'meaningful governance rights'?

How does labeling a digital asset as a 'utility token' affect its classification as a security?

What are the implications of a cryptocurrency being judged as a security?

Why is it important for a cryptocurrency to be decentralized?