BitFury Taps Ex-CFTC Chair, Bitcoin Core Developer as Advisors
BitFury has announced a pair of high-profile appointees to its advisory board and established a new body of technical advisors. New to BitFury's advisory board are former chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Dr James Newsome, and president of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD) Hernando de Soto. Dr Newsome is also the former CEO of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX). An appointee of President Bill Clinton, he assisted the administration as a member of the President's Working Group for Financial Markets and led the CFTC's regulatory implementation of....
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Now that financial regulators have started to step up their game in conducting oversight on the bitcoin industry, cryptocurrency companies have been adding former heads of financial regulation institutions to their advisory board. BitFury recently announced that the former chair of the Commodity Futures and Trading Commission (CFTC), which is responsible for financial oversight in the US, will be joining their advisory board. Ex-CFTC head Dr. James Newsome will be joined by Hernando de Soto, president of the Institute of Liberty and Democracy (ILD), in the advisory board. Newsome....
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