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Customer Advisory: Use Caution When Buying Digital Coins or Tokens
… podcasts, primers, advisories and more, visit CFTC.gov/Bitcoin .  1 See generally Buyer Beware: Hundreds of Bitcoin Wannabes Show Hallmarks of Fraud , Wall Street … podcasts, primers, advisories and more, visit CFTC.gov/Bitcoin .  1 See generally Buyer Beware: Hundreds of Bitcoin …
Keynote Address of Commissioner J. Christopher Giancarlo before the Markit Group, 2016 Annual Customer Conference New York
… UBS Bank Is Experimenting with “Smart-Bonds” Using the Bitcoin Blockchain , Bitcoin Magazine, June 12, 2015, … gazine.com/articles/ubs-bank-experimenting-smart-bonds-using-bitcoin-blockchain-1434140571 ; see also Pete Harris, UBS …
Remarks of Daniel Gorfine Regarding DLT and the Next Generation of Computing Infrastructure, Finovate, NYC
… and risk transfer to fintech topics like DLT and bitcoin? The answer is that our financial markets are … operations. After the self-certification and launch of bitcoin futures in December 2017, LabCFTC was then able to … At the most basic level, what Satoshi Nakomoto and Bitcoin have done is make thinking about back-office ledger …
Remarks of Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo at Commissione Nazionale per le Societa e la Borsa (CONSOB), Rome, Italy
… unfortunately ensued.   Now, let’s fast forward to today.  Bitcoin has refocused attention on topics of back-office … and list futures products based on the value of Bitcoin.   CFTC regulatory practice is for exchanges to … in any other national marketplace.   With respect to the bitcoin products, because they were novel and based on a …
Chairman Giancarlo Statement on Virtual Currencies
… of the considerable risks of virtual currencies like Bitcoin. In addition to the nascent stage of the technology … Since then, the CFTC has taken action against unregistered Bitcoin futures exchanges, enforced the laws prohibiting … information about virtual currencies, including a dedicated Bitcoin webpage, a virtual currency primer and several …
History of the CFTC
… , August 18, 2015) . September 17, 2015 —The CFTC orders bitcoin options trading platform operator Coinflip, Inc. and its CEO to cease illegally offering bitcoin options and to cease operating a facility for … registering. In this first action against an unregistered bitcoin options trading platform, the CFTC holds that …
Testimony of Chairman Rostin Behnam Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry’s Hearing on the Oversight of Digital Commodities
… its first enforcement action in connection with an illegal Bitcoin operation. [5]   Since that time, the agency has … steady returns in digital asset commodities such as Bitcoin and Ether. [6]   In its decision, the court re-affirmed that both Bitcoin and Ether are commodities under the Commodity …
CFTC Charges Five Defendants with Fraudulent Digital Assets Trading Scheme
… U.S. and other countries for Icomtech to supposedly trade bitcoin and other digital asset commodities for them, and … falsely represented they would use the money to trade Bitcoin and other digital asset commodities for the … the complaint, in actuality, the defendants did not trade Bitcoin or other digital asset commodities for the customers …
Don’t Become an Unwitting Money Launderer
… such as Tether (USDT) on the Tron blockchain, or bitcoin. Meanwhile, law enforcement is getting better at … cash, using it to buy crypto-assets—sometimes at a bitcoin kiosk—and forward the crypto to another wallet. … such as Tether (USDT) on the Tron blockchain, or bitcoin. Meanwhile, law enforcement is getting better at …
CFTC Talks EP024: Coincenter.org Peter Van Valkenburgh
… Valkenburgh. We discuss the key new innovation underneath bitcoin: The consensus mechanism. Curious how bitcoins are created and why there’s a limit? Listen and …