Recorded Webinar—“You Won’t Know the Answer Until We Come After You”: Traversing the Crypto Regulatory Minefield

Webinar

TECH IN THE COURTS: A WLF-TechFreedom Series

Panelists:
Paul Grewal, Chief Legal Officer, Coinbase
Corbin K. Barthold, Internet Policy Counsel and Director of Appellate Litigation, TechFreedom

About:
In 2022, Coinbase petitioned the SEC for guidance on how to comply with federal securities law. Instead of acting on the petition, the SEC sued Coinbase for alleged securities violations. As a federal judge recently put it, the SEC’s response to Coinbase’s request was, in effect, “You won’t know the answer until we come after you.” This ordeal is emblematic of the crypto industry’s struggle to placate hostile regulators and make sense of rules that long predate the advent of blockchain technology. In this crossover event with the Tech Policy Podcast, Paul Grewal, Coinbase’s chief legal officer, tells Corbin Barthold, internet policy counsel at TechFreedom, about his company’s quest for legal clarity.

Click HERE to listen to the Tech Policy Podcast episode generated from this webinar.

Speakers' Biographies

Paul Grewal

Paul is the Chief Legal Officer of Coinbase Global, Inc., where he is responsible for Coinbase’s legal, compliance, global intelligence and government relations groups. Before joining Coinbase, Paul was Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Facebook and served as United States Magistrate Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Paul was previously a partner at Howrey LLP. He received his JD from the University of Chicago Law School and his SB from MIT.

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Corbin K. Barthold

Corbin is Internet Policy Counsel and Director of Appellate Litigation at TechFreedom. He writes on tech legal, regulatory, and social issues for a wide range of outlets, including City Journal, The Bulwark, Reason, Lawfare, Techdirt, and The Daily Beast. He also hosts the Tech Policy Podcast, where he interviews some of the tech world's best journalists, lawyers, and academics. Corbin previously served as Senior Litigation Counsel at Washington Legal Foundation and as a partner at Browne George Ross LLP (now Ellis George LLP), where he engaged in complex litigation.

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