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Chicago Board Options Exchange - Futures and Options - Short
… EACH CATEGORY (TOTAL TRADERS: 200) 87 65 83 31 35 157 150 BITCOIN-USD - CBOE FUTURES EXCHANGE Code-1330E1 OPTION AND … (1 Bitcoin) OPEN INTEREST: 6,433 COMMITMENTS 3,409 5,292 305 0 …
CFTC, SEC Issue Investor Alert: Guidance Warns of Websites Related to Digital Assets
… make an investment, typically using a digital asset such as Bitcoin, the fraudsters in some cases stop communicating … higher returns typically involve more risk. Visit CFTC.gov/bitcoin , the CFTC’s dedicated website for Bitcoin and Virtual Currency educational resources, which …
Customer Advisory: Beware of Fee Scams Targeting Workers Sidelined by COVID-19
… communicates via messaging apps. You’re asked to pay in Bitcoin or other digital assets. You’re promised or … to pay the deposit directly to the broker’s wallet using bitcoin or other digital assets. Once the deposit is made, … communicates via messaging apps. You’re asked to pay in Bitcoin or other digital assets. You’re promised or …
Statement of Chairman Heath P. Tarbert in Support of Interpretive Guidance on Actual Delivery for Digital Assets
… digital asset that is a “commodity” under the CEA—such as Bitcoin and Ether, for example [3] —and is used as a medium … assets, concluding that the exception was not met where Bitcoin was transferred to a virtual wallet under the … (CFTC Sept. 17, 2015) (consent order) (concluding that Bitcoin is a commodity under the CEA); In re TeraExchange …
CFTC Seeks Public Comments on Crypto-asset Mechanics and Markets
… mechanics, and markets for virtual currencies beyond Bitcoin, namely Ether and its use on the Ethereum Network.  … understand similarities and distinctions between Ether and Bitcoin, as well as Ether-specific opportunities, …
Federal Court Orders Rhode Island Man to Pay More than $2.8 Million in Restitution for Virtual Currency Fraud
… solicited individuals to invest in digital assets such as bitcoin and ether. [See CFTC Press Release No.  8356-21 ]   … and obtained more than $5 million of digital assets such as bitcoin and ether from customers.   Spence’s trading … or speculating in  virtual currencies  or recently launched bitcoin futures and options.  Customers and other …
Atlanta Economics Club Keynote Address At The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta by Commissioner Kristin N. Johnson
… additionality and permanence.  Let’s Begin at the Beginning—Bitcoin and the Rising Threat of Climate-Related Risks   In the innocuously titled white paper - Bitcoin: A Peer to Peer Electronic Cash System —an author … . [2] Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (2008), …
CFTC Charges California-based Company and Its CEO with Fraudulent Solicitation and Misappropriation of Digital Asset Commodities
… defendants fraudulently solicited over $7 million worth of bitcoin and ether from customers. The complaint also alleges … The defendants represented they would trade investors’ bitcoin and ether using “Robot Traders.” The complaint …
Statement of Commissioner Kristin N. Johnson Regarding CFTC Consent Order Imposing $1.7 Billion in Restitution against South African Commodity Pool Operator
… scheme by which they solicited and accepted nearly 30,000 bitcoin from at least 23,000 people located in the U.S. for … Pool Operator and CEO with $1.7 Billion Fraud Involving Bitcoin, June 20, 2022, …
Remarks of CFTC Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero before the International Swaps and Derivatives Association’s Crypto Forum 2022, New York
… decade as the Special Inspector General over TARP. You see, Bitcoin, the first cryptocurrency, was borne of, or at least … Congress authorized TARP, Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin, published a whitepaper stating, “I’ve been working … foundation may have liquidated as much as $3.5 billion of Bitcoin, placing downward pressure on Bitcoin, affecting all …