Re:CFTC Orders Tether and Bitfinex to Pay Fines Totaling $42.5M
by mydeskistoosm on Friday October 15, 2021 @07:29PM
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depends. It could ripple into the legacy financial system. If that happens, we could see some really onerous regulations that prevent innovation.
Re:CFTC Orders Tether and Bitfinex to Pay Fines Totaling $42.5M
by iskander on Saturday October 16, 2021 @03:10PM
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That's my worry about the integration of crypto into tradfi (via BTC ETFs, stablecoin savings accounts, &c). It's OK if crypto is a hellstorm of speculation because it rides on top of rapid experimentation. However, it's really not tolerable to have that much chaos actually affecting e.g. people's retirement funds. If crypto messes up main street then the regulatory hammer will be unfortunately well earned.
It would wash out a lot of the accumulated speculative value and hopefully lead to a much more confident regulatory framework for the interface between blockchain money and real world money. It would also long-term strengthen fully decentralized aspects of the crypto ecosystem while flushing out those that don't really function independently of traditional finance but instead accumulate speculative valuation based on an unsafe interface with fiat and the financial sector.
Winners all around (except for crypto speculators)?