Joseph Lubin, Fluidity Summit

One month before the Hinman speech, Lubin (after doing his “legal homework”) says ether was “never a cryptocurrency” and sold “very explicitly to software developers, to people who intended to use the system” and “not sold for speculative purposes.” He says “it never was a security.” (In fact, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin advertised the 2014 ICO as “an opportunity for anyone to purchase ether” which was “a currency inside the Ethereum system sort of like the XRP in Ripple.” Buterin also structured a sale of 500,000 ether tokens to Lubin’s college friend Mike Novogratz in 2015, which he said made him a hefty profit on the secondary market.)

Source: @digitalassetbuy