Regulation Takes Center Stage at Bloomberg Bitcoin Event
The importance of regulation was the topic of the day as industry heavyweights joined current and former regulators at Bloomberg's bitcoin conference yesterday. Bitcoin: Beyond the Currency, held at the organization's global headquarters in New York, drew an audience of roughly 200, many of whom were investors and other denizens of Wall Street. Former SEC chairman and recently appointed advisor to BitPay and Vaurum Arthur Levitt told the audience that there is a lot of work still to be done on bitcoin's image to take it into the mainstream. "I think a lot of people in the industry think....
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