She’s not your ‘Crypto Mom’: Hester Peirce’s fight with the SEC

By Benjamin Pimentel. May 9, 2022. (Protocol)

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce is celebrated in memes as “Crypto Mom.” She’s considered crypto’s staunchest ally on a regulatory body that’s become the industry’s nemesis.

It’s an off-target moniker and a flawed portrait, Peirce said.

“It’s kind of funny because I don’t have children,” she told Protocol in a wide-ranging interview. She denies being an advocate for the crypto industry and thinks it’s a bad idea for people to think of the government “in parental terms.”

But Peirce is sympathetic to the crypto industry’s key complaint about the SEC: that under Chair Gary Gensler the agency has failed to offer adequate guidance to the industry on the regulations that apply to cryptocurrencies and digital assets.

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