CFTC Appoints Bitcoin Trading Expert to Technology Committee Members: Puts Bitcoin and Blockchain on the Agenda
CFTC has appointed a bitcoin trading expert to their Technology Advisory Committee and has set a meeting on January 26th to review blockchain and bitcoin’s potential application to the derivatives market. Commodities Futures Trading Commission has appointed Paul L. Chou, a bitcoin trading expert to their Technology Advisory Committee. CFTC has also announced that on Tuesday, January 26, 2016 from 9.45 am to 3.45 p.m, the Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) will hold a public meeting at their Washington, DC Headquarters. The agenda of this meeting inclines on the following: The commission’s....
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will meet on Jan. 26 to review the dual capabilities of bitcoin and the blockchain for the derivatives market. The commission appointed Paul L. Chou, CEO and founder of Ledger X, as a bitcoin trading expert to its technical advisory committee. The meeting will be from 9:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. at the CFTC’s Washington, D.C. headquarters. Attendees will discussion the proposed regulation of automated trading, swap standardization and harmonization, and the potential application of distributed ledger technology to the derivatives market.
The US Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) recently held a meeting on Bitcoin. The public meeting was held by the CFTC's Global Markets Advisory Committee (GMAC) and was sponsored by CFTC Commissioner Mark P Wetjen. The meeting was first called in September to discuss whether or not the CFTC has jurisdiction over Bitcoin derivatives. The CFTC was joined by expert panelists including Coin Center's Jerry Brito, Law Professor Houman Shadab, TeraExchange's founder Leonard Nuara, and BitPay's Chief Compliance Officer Tim Byun. Together, the group discussed Bitcoin futures' future and....
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) Technology Advisory Committee discussed how blockchain applications could reshape the derivatives market at a meeting today in with special attention was paid to the need for industry standards and collaboration. The hearing, originally announced in January but later postponed, featured testimony from representatives from both traditional finance firms as well as startups in the blockchain space. Notably, the CFTC commissioners present indicated a willingness to avoid cumbersome regulatory demands on the still-nascent technology, with....