Topic: [2018-04-26] Cryptocurrency Has THE Potential To Go Mainstream - Joseph Otting (Read 132 times)

This is a strangest article I've seen on Forbes so far. It was so poorly written that I think it will be removed from the site soon. It looks like the writer, Ted Knutson, was on some drugs while writing it. If I'm missing something, please explain what is the meaning of the quoted text below?


And then no more from the chief in the rest of the article.

Also the article ends with this:


which has nothing to to with the title. This is one of worst articles I've read on crypto.

Cryptocurrency has the potential to go mainstream, Comptroller of the Currency Joseph Otting said Thursday.

Why?

“When I was a kid I had cat’s eye marbles I could trade for baseball cards with my buddies,” the federal bank regulatory agency chief said on a day-long symposium on the future of finance.

That was the height of optimism about crypto among a wealth of financial regulators and industry leaders at the session held by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Center for Capital Markets.

House Financial Services Committee Financial Services Subcommittee Chair told the gathering regulatory guidelines need to be put around Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs).

“The longer we wait, the harder it is going to be to put the toothpaste in the tube. We know fraud is happening,” said Rep. Bill Huizenga.

While he said cryptocurrency abuses are a problem, the Michigan Republican said he doesn’t think Congress needs to put something into law that defies common sense.

The Congressional capital markets overseer said he has been talking to Otting and Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Jay Clayton about the potential for cryptocurrency regulation.

Shortly after Huizenga left the session, SEC Corporation Finance Director Bill Hinman told his subcommittee Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have the potential to facilitate capital formation when they follow the securities laws.

During Chamber meeting Jeb Hensarling, head of the full Financial Services Committee, refused to say if he will bring up a bill on cryptocurrency regulation by the end of this year when his stay in Congress will end.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tedknutson/2018/04/26/cryptocurrency-has-the-potential-to-go-mainstream-says-top-bank-regulator/1#590a892a5f78