I nearly had a heart attack when I saw that bitmex is being probed by the CFTC today.
I'm wasting my time writing these legal posts in the hope that more informed proffessional people on this forum will see it and pass word along to people who are connected and capable of lobbying.
The retail noobs who think regulations in crypto are good are just profoundly ignorant to international security and derivative law and american aml kyc law and the history of forex and Dodd Frank and what America did to the forex industry for forex traders.
If people in America do not lobby and fight congress they are going to plow crypto into submission the way they did forex, they are going to ban alt coins and ban leverage to such a draconian extent that no unrich american will be able to adequately benefit from the global market in crypto.
The BitMEX probe is for offering services to US persons without being registered. It's
already illegal to offer their derivatives markets to Americans. So, these seems like two very separate issues: US regulators enforcing laws that are already on the books, and lobbying to prevent further draconian laws.
I'm with you. Unfortunately, the US and EU both seem to be pushing the AML/CFT agenda extremely hard and Bitcoin is obviously in their crosshairs now. Meanwhile, there really isn't much of an organized lobby. I know Coinbase has a registered lobbyist and a PAC, and there's Coin Center. But I don't think either of them are
particularly interested in issues about leverage and derivatives.
I'm not underestimating US regulators at all. I find the whole thing depressing, really.