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The Stacks ecosystem is mission driven - we're here to help unleash the massive and still untapped potential of Bitcoin. A unique part of the Stacks culture is 'no shortcuts' - put in the hard work and do things the right way. For example, early fundraising was conducted in collaboration with the SEC, the first ever RegA offering in crypto. This was an expensive and arduous task, but the right thing to do. A few years later, ahead of the Stacks mainnet launch (Jan 2021), we knew the network had become sufficiently decentralized and in an SEC filing we declared that it was no longer necessary to treat Stacks tokens as securities. Well, the SEC was not on board with this interpretation, and in September of 2021 they began an investigation into Stacks and Hiro Systems (formerly known as Blockstack, the original issuer). For the past 3+ years, we’ve spent innumerable resources diligently complying with requests for information and working to explain how the Stacks network works and what Hiro’s role in it is. Today, the SEC is dropping the investigation and recommending NO enforcement action 🏆 It's time to build on Bitcoin 🟧 🚀 #Bitcoin / #BitcoinL2s / #Web3

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