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Historical Special Announcements
… 2017: The CFTC is now including the CBOE Futures Exchange’s Bitcoin contract (CFTC ID 1330E1) in the Legacy and Traders … these three choices, financial best captures the nature of bitcoin contracts. The default trader classification for the … contract will also have this same classification for bitcoin contracts. Otherwise, traders default to “Other …
Giancarlo Commends SEC Chairman Clayton on ICO Statement
… nascent underlying cash markets and exchanges for bitcoin remain largely unregulated markets over which the …
Statement of Commissioner Caroline D. Pham Regarding Complaint Charging Swaps Manipulation and Fraud on a Decentralized Digital Asset Exchange
… obtain over $110 million in digital assets (including bitcoin, ether, and Tether) from a purported decentralized …
CFTC Requests Public Comment on Related Applications Submitted by LedgerX, LLC for Registration as a Derivatives Clearing Organization and Swap Execution Facility
… clear fully collateralized, physically settled options on bitcoin. Comments should be submitted on or before January …
Remarks of Daniel Gorfine, Director of LabCFTC at ISDA
… and risk transfer to fintech topics like DLT and bitcoin?   The answer is that our financial markets are … determined that certain virtual currencies, such as Bitcoin, met the definition of “commodity” under the … few of our regulated exchanges self-certified and launched bitcoin futures products.  LabCFTC was well-positioned to …
CFTC Extends Period for Public Comment on Related Applications Submitted by LedgerX, LLC for Registration as a Derivatives Clearing Organization and Swap Execution Facility
… clear fully collateralized, physically settled options on bitcoins. Comments may be submitted electronically through …
Romance Frauds
… to do it too. The Scam You’ll have to make your deposits in bitcoin or stablecoins, but your friend shows you how and … to do it too. The Scam You’ll have to make your deposits in bitcoin or stablecoins, but your friend shows you how and …
Remarks of Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo before the Sims Lecture At Vanderbilt Law School, Nashville, Tennessee
… time grappling with the recently self-certified launch of Bitcoin futures by two of our registered futures exchanges. … before the hearing, I reflected on conversations about Bitcoin I had participated in during our New Year’s ski … last year, however. Suddenly, they were all talking about Bitcoin.  They are asking me what I thought and should they …
Opening Remarks of Commissioner Kristin Johnson for the CFTC and OMWI Roundtable on Digital Assets and Financial Inclusion
… Nakamoto published a white paper, innocently titled - Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System - that … at its peak accounted for 80 percent of the global bitcoin trading volume, declared bankruptcy in early 2014 … cyberattacks that led to the loss of an astounding 850,000 bitcoin. [17] In January of this year, another large …
CFTC Issues Proposed Interpretation on Virtual Currency “Actual Delivery” in Retail Transactions
… commodity transactions involving virtual currency, such as bitcoin. Specifically, the Proposed Interpretation sets out …