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Federal Court Orders BitMEX to Pay $100 Million for Illegally Operating a Cryptocurrency Trading Platform and Anti-Money Laundering Violations
… to trade cryptocurrencies, including derivatives on bitcoin, ether, and litecoin. [See CFTC Press Release No. … (FCM) without CFTC registration, including by accepting bitcoin to margin digital asset derivative transactions and …
Written Testimony of Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo before the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development and Related Agencies, Washington, D.C.
… materials to the public. The Primer on Virtual Currency, Bitcoin webpage, and podcasts are just a few of the … in retail banking, investment, and virtual currencies like bitcoin. LabCFTC is the focal point of the CFTC’s efforts to … exchanges have the responsibility to ensure that their Bitcoin futures products and their cash-settlement process …
Digital Asset Frauds
… Digital Asset Frauds Digital asset frauds, such as involving bitcoin, ether, etc., come in many flavors; each promise too … or options contracts that use digital commodities — such as bitcoin or ether — as underlying assets. In addition to … Should Know [PDF] … Digital asset frauds, such as involving bitcoin, ether, etc., come in many flavors; each promise too …
Statement of Chairman Rostin Behnam in Support of Bitnomial Clearinghouse LLC Application for Registration as a DCO
… (Exchange), which currently consist of physically-delivered Bitcoin futures contracts and options on Bitcoin futures contracts. See Bitnomial application …
Testimony of Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo before the House Committee on Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
… working with partners to spread the word about the CFTC’s Bitcoin and virtual currency resources. OCEO is conducting … all of which are located on the Commission’s dedicated “Bitcoin” web page at https://www.cftc.gov/Bitcoin .   Launched on December 15, 2017, the web page …
CFTC Customer Advisory Cautions the Public to Beware of Artificial Intelligence Scams
… Republic of South Africa, stole more than $1.7 billion in bitcoin from at least 23,000 people using a few websites, as … Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. For as little as $100 in bitcoin, and with “no trading experience required,” … tens of millions of dollars and, in one case, nearly 30,000 bitcoins—worth about $1.7 billion at the time. [1] Before …
CFTC Charges Mosaic Exchange Limited and Sean Michael with a Fraudulent Solicitation and Digital Asset Commodities Trading Scheme
… to give them hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of bitcoin or other funds for the defendants to trade bitcoin and other digital asset commodities on the …
Statement of Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero: Arming Crypto Customers with Free Tools to Protect Themselves from Becoming a Victim
… defendant fraudulently solicited $2.27 million in customer Bitcoin that he promised to trade on a leveraged basis.  He … pool participant that one client invested $100,000 worth of Bitcoin and cashed out $2.7 million.  Instead, he lost …
Remarks for Commissioner Rostin Behnam at the BFI Summit “Fostering Open, Transparent, Competitive, and Financially Sound Markets”, United Nations Plaza, New York, NY
… regulators in 21st century digital markets. Regulation of Bitcoin Another example is regulation.  In 2018, two …   They have declared the 2017 heightened valuation of Bitcoin to be a bubble similar to the famous “Tulip Bubble” … 2015, the CFTC determined that virtual currencies, such as Bitcoin, met the definition of “commodity” under the …
CFTC Talks EP016: Jack Ablin, Chief Investment Officer BMO Private Bank
… to anticipate in 2018. Low vol, #stocks #commodities & #Bitcoin all discussed. … CFTC Talks EP016: Jack Ablin, Chief …