<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>komali2</author><text>Will one of y&amp;#x27;all just post whatever this person emails you?</text><parent_chain><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>What is your e-mail address?</text></item><item><author>thisisit</author><text>Interesting.&lt;p&gt;Slight off-topic looking at your profile, it says &amp;quot;Trade private equity stakes in technology companies&amp;quot;. Curious how does that work?</text></item><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>This is relatively standard practice in the broker-dealer space. (It’s how I started my first company.)</text></item><item><author>koolba</author><text>&amp;gt; If approved, Coinbase will soon be capable of offering blockchain-based securities, under the oversight of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). This step forward is being made possible by our acquisition of a broker-dealer license, an alternative trading system license (ATS), and a registered investment advisor (RIA) license.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; ...&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; This is all being enabled by our acquisition of Keystone Capital Corp., Venovate Marketplace, Inc., and Digital Wealth LLC.&lt;p&gt;If I’m understanding this correctly it’s very impressive. They were able to acquire existing companies with those licenses and convince the SEC to let them retain and expand them to cover the entire business. It’s like the reverse acquisitions of small banks to enable a new player into the tightly regulated bank market (which is an incredible pain to get new approval for), but now applying it to crypto.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Our path to listing SEC-regulated crypto securities</title><url>https://blog.coinbase.com/our-path-to-listing-sec-regulated-crypto-securities-a1724e13bb5a</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eganist</author><text>Reachable via any of my accounts tied to keybase if that helps (including the email tied to my key). Thanks for accommodating the widening list!</text><parent_chain><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>What is your e-mail address?</text></item><item><author>thisisit</author><text>Interesting.&lt;p&gt;Slight off-topic looking at your profile, it says &amp;quot;Trade private equity stakes in technology companies&amp;quot;. Curious how does that work?</text></item><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>This is relatively standard practice in the broker-dealer space. (It’s how I started my first company.)</text></item><item><author>koolba</author><text>&amp;gt; If approved, Coinbase will soon be capable of offering blockchain-based securities, under the oversight of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). This step forward is being made possible by our acquisition of a broker-dealer license, an alternative trading system license (ATS), and a registered investment advisor (RIA) license.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; ...&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; This is all being enabled by our acquisition of Keystone Capital Corp., Venovate Marketplace, Inc., and Digital Wealth LLC.&lt;p&gt;If I’m understanding this correctly it’s very impressive. They were able to acquire existing companies with those licenses and convince the SEC to let them retain and expand them to cover the entire business. It’s like the reverse acquisitions of small banks to enable a new player into the tightly regulated bank market (which is an incredible pain to get new approval for), but now applying it to crypto.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Our path to listing SEC-regulated crypto securities</title><url>https://blog.coinbase.com/our-path-to-listing-sec-regulated-crypto-securities-a1724e13bb5a</url></story>