- Venture capitalist and billionaire Tim Draper says the SEC chair is crippling the American technology and crypto innovation progress with damaging policies.
- Draper thinks ‘America is going to be a technology wasteland in 40 years.’
Tim Draper, an American Venture capitalist, and billionaire, has responded to SEC Chair Gary Gensler calling the crypto industry ‘scam artists’ and ‘fraudsters’ in an interview on Fox Business show ‘The Claman Countdown.’
The Draper Venture Network founder said that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair, Gary Gensler, runs the US with policies that cripple crypto innovation.
Draper said that Gary Gensler and the SEC have no right to oversee crypto technology and that crypto should be regulated in a new way. The billionaire said crypto firms do not expect zero crypto regulations and are willing to abide by clear guidelines. However, the SEC has issued confusing guidelines, upsetting and discouraging the crypto industry from growth.
Draper criticizes SEC
Draper, an early Bitcoin (BTC) investor, said if there is any fraud, as in FTX, the SEC chair has the job of protecting investors but should not randomly shoot down any firm with new technology.
Draper continued to say, despite having a few characters going against the law, Gensler should not enforce random things as if the country does not have guidelines. These baseless enforcements will drive innovation out of the country, and America will be a technology wasteland in forty years. He gave an example of how Coinbase was willing to abide by the law, but the new SEC regulations weighed them down.
If there was a fraud [in FTX], and I think there probably was, then you have a job to do. But you don’t just start shooting randomly at any company with new technology. That makes absolutely no sense.
Draper remarked and continued to say:
And sure, there are certain people who are doing things that you clearly don’t want to have done in the US. We all have to play by a certain set of rules. We play by those rules. We always believed in those rules in the US. But now, it’s like we don’t know the rules, and [Gensler] can enforce whatever he wants and whenever he wants. That is going to drive all the innovation right out of the country. It makes no sense at all. He is damaging our country if he is going to do that.
Tim Draper also commended Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong for doing everything as dictated by American law. Coinbase, the biggest crypto exchange by volume in the US, was charged by the SEC last week with allegations of security violations. Draper noted that Brian had done everything right and brought innovations that would transform the global economy. However, the American regulators can decide whether Coinbaase and Brian’s transformational innovations will happen in the US.
