THELOGICALINDIAN - The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission CFTC is actuality challenged in cloister over its blank of cryptocurrencies The defendants altercate that their tokens are not bolt with no futures affairs which the CFTC regulates The aftereffect of this case could affect the Commissions adeptness to badge all approaching crypto frauds
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Challenging the CFTC’s Power
The ability of the CFTC over cryptocurrencies has reportedly been challenged in court. The case involving My Big Coin could actuate whether the derivatives regulator “has the ascendancy to action artifice associated with cryptocurrencies,” Reuters appear on Wednesday.
Katherine Cooper, advocate for the defense, explained that the CFTC should not accept administration in this case, advertence that “our altercation boils bottomward to the actuality that because My Big Coin does not accept approaching affairs or added derivatives trading on it, it is not a commodity,” and does not abatement beneath the Article Exchange Act according to which the CFTC is the regulator.
The account aperture elaborated:
Gregory Kaufman, a advocate with Eversheds Sutherland, believes that the aftereffect of this case “would accept a air-conditioned aftereffect on the CFTC’s appliance of its admiral in this area.”
Other than My Big Coin, the Commission has appear eight cryptocurrency-related cases to date, the advertisement noted, abacus that U.S. District Judge Rya Zobel in Boston is set to apprehend the My Big Coin case on Thursday.
About My Big Coin Case
The case began in January back the CFTC sued Randall Crater and the aggregation he founded alleged My Big Coin Pay Inc. The account aperture described, “The CFTC says the defendants misappropriated $6 actor from 28 barter they absorbed by allotment their basic bill [My Big Coin] to complete like bitcoin and added claiming it was backed by gold.”
The Commission was accustomed the ascendancy over crypto in March back U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein in Brooklyn “ruled for the aboriginal time that basic currencies can be adapted by the bureau as a commodity,” the advertisement conveyed. However, Crater’s attorneys argued:
Nonetheless, Neal Kumar, a advocate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher, was quoted answer that “Crater may still lose because the Commodity Exchange Act defines casework as bolt not aloof back they currently accept futures affairs associated with them but in the approaching could.”
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