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title: Episode 13 | Interest on Crypto - The SEC & BlockFi's $100M Fine
description: Honeycomb Digital's CIO Baxter Hines and Professor Carol Goforth review recent actions by the SEC to impose a $100M fine on BlockFi. This episode discusses the ramification of these events and how blockchain based lending will operate going forward.
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# Episode 13 | Interest on Crypto - The SEC & BlockFi's $100M Fine

 by [**Baxter Hines**](https://blog.honeycombdigital.io/regulatory-buzz/author/baxter-hines) on Mar 07, 2022

Honeycomb Digital's CIO Baxter Hines and Professor Carol Goforth review recent actions by the SEC to impose a $100M fine on BlockFi. This episode discusses the ramification of these events and how blockchain based lending will operate going forward.

 

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