Yesterday, the chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Heath Tarbert,
endorsed blockchain technology. In a CNBC
interview, he discussed the balance of regulating digital assets and fostering innovation.
“I want the United States to lead, particularly in the blockchain technology that underlies digital assets,” Tarbert said.
He added: “My emphasis has not been on any single digital asset, but really on the blockchain […] ultimately I could see it overtaking the internet or being effectively parallel to the internet in using a variety of different kinds of transactions, not just the financial system, but in other types of transactions as well.”
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