Digital Chamber Adds Mulvaney to Board of Advisors; Visa, Goldman Join Execut...
The Chamber of Digital Commerce announced Wednesday that former acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney has joined the group’s board of advisors.
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Several leaders in banking, payments and politics are joining the Chamber of Digital Commerce, a major voice for the blockchain industry in Washington, D.C. On Wednesday, the Chamber of Digital Commerce announced the addition of Visa, Goldman Sachs and Six Digital Exchange (SDX) to its executive committee. Mick Mulvaney, a former White House Chief of Staff and a co-founder of the Congressional Blockchain Caucus will also be joining the chamber’s board of advisors. Mulvaney left the White House in March. On the board, he will be joining a number of figures familiar to Cointelegraph’s....
Bitcoin services provider Xapo has appointed a number of notable businessmen to its recently inaugurated board of advisors, including founder of Visa, Dee Hock. Joining Hock on the Xapo board are John Reed, the former chairman and CEO of Citibank; and Lawrence H. Summers, Secretary of Treasury under Bill Clinton's administration. The newly appointed board members praised digital currency's potential, with Hock claiming "bitcoin represents not only the future of payments but also the future of governance". "We live in the 21st century but are still using command and control organisational....
The Chamber of Digital Commerce, a trade association focused on promoting digital currencies and assets, announced today, at Money 20/20, that Don Tapscott had joined its board of advisors. The goal is for him to advise on government affairs and public policy related to technology and economic policy. He will also be working on a framework for best practices on blockchain technology for regulators. Tapscott is the author or co-author of more than 15 books about technology, such as The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in The Age of Networked Intelligence and Grown Up Digital: How the Net....
The Chamber of Digital Commerce (CDC) has appointed Mark Wetjen, head of global public policy at the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), to its board of advisors. The DTCC, the world’s top post-trade market infrastructure for international financial services, has joined the chamber’s executive committee. The DTCC processed nearly $1.5 quadrillion in securities transactions in 2015. Prior to DTCC, Wetjen was a commissioner at the U.S. Commodity and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Wetjen Sees Big Opportunities. Wetjen said new technologies are creating opportunities to....
One thing some Bitcoin community members ought to point out is how Digital Currency Group seems to be following the same path as the mainstream media by turning away from Bitcoin and focusing on the blockchain. A lot of people active in the Bitcoin world will have heard about the recent investment in Digital Currency Group by Western Union. This news has caused a lot more questions than answers, although it seems DCG has added some new advisors to their board who will help shape the future for Bitcoin and blockchain. Although there has been a lot of focus on the investment made by Western....