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… Officer and Director of LabCFTC at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).   The testimony presented … and risk transfer to fintech topics like DLT and bitcoin? The answer is that our financial markets are … operations. After the self-certification and launch of bitcoin futures in December 2017, LabCFTC was then able to …
… on Oversight of and Approach to Virtual Currency Futures Markets January 4, 2018 Washington, DC – Commodity … of the considerable risks of virtual currencies like Bitcoin. In addition to the nascent stage of the technology … Since then, the CFTC has taken action against unregistered Bitcoin futures exchanges, enforced the laws prohibiting …
… concerning “source code repository” proposal is D-E-A-D. Bitcoin and Digital Ledger Technology A second topic for the … and one that probably none of you have heard of, is called Bitcoin and the Distributed Ledger Technology closely … it would be required to register with the CFTC as a Futures Commission Merchant. 9 However, an important …
… – especially given the CFTC’s oversight of crypto-related futures and derivatives markets. [5] Today I want to take … unfortunately ensued. Now, let’s fast forward to today.   Bitcoin has refocused attention on topics of back-office … and list futures products based on the value of Bitcoin.   CFTC regulatory practice is for exchanges to …
… do not necessarily constitute the views of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission), my fellow … foundational technology that underlies the crypto-currency, Bitcoin. That is the technology of distributed ledgers often … ions/Documents/quarterlybulletin/2014/qb14q3digitalcurrenciesbitcoin1.pdf ; see also Tomas Hirst, The Bank of England …
… Officer and Director of LabCFTC at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).   My remarks presented … and risk transfer to fintech topics like DLT and bitcoin? The answer is that our financial markets are … operations. After the self-certification and launch of bitcoin futures in December 2017, LabCFTC was then able to …
… – especially given the CFTC’s oversight of crypto-related futures and derivatives markets. [1]   Today I want to take … unfortunately ensued.   Now, let’s fast forward to today.  Bitcoin has refocused attention on topics of back-office … and list futures products based on the value of Bitcoin.   CFTC regulatory practice is for exchanges to …
… a dialogue on the self-certification process of the first bitcoin futures contract, and weathered a government shutdown by … much of the day focused on the listing of the first Bitcoin futures contracts. My message was twofold: I …
… of the Division of Market Oversight at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC, Agency or Commission). … contract markets self-certified that they would list bitcoin derivatives contracts for trading. [19]   Though the … five list for trading futures and options contracts on bitcoin, ether, or both.   Market participants are actively …
… certain enumerated provisions of the CEA “as if they were” futures contracts. Those enumerated CEA provisions include … digital asset that is a “commodity” under the CEA—such as Bitcoin and Ether, for example [3] —and is used as a medium … assets, concluding that the exception was not met where Bitcoin was transferred to a virtual wallet under the …