The third week of the year will very likely prove to be its most significant for cryptocurrency innovators and investors. Crypto scored a hat trick with news that President Joe Biden’s three top financial regulators—the chairmen of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the bank-overseeing Comptroller of the Currency—will all be intimately familiar with the cryptocurrency and blockchain business.
SEC nominee Gary Gensler, reported CFTC nominee Chris Brummer, and reported OCC nominee Michael Barr (Photo: C-SPAN/Wikimedia Commons)