niuz

Tap one to read its news. Starred ones come first in the row.

US CFTC boss says Binance hack 'proves his point' about need for crypto market regulations

1 source

6h agonow

One source
What the source said
The National
“US CFTC boss says Binance hack 'proves his point' about need for crypto market regulations”

Michael Selig, the chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading commission, on Friday addressed the hack of Binance that resulted in the largest cryptocurrency theft in history. Mr Selig spoke about the Binance incident during an appearance on CNBC's Squawk on the Street, and said the hacking ordeal "proves our exact point in proposing regulations for crypto markets earlier this month". The CFTC chairman then said that the prevailing issue was that the crypto apparatus was still largely…

Read at The National
Is this point wrong? Tell us

Reported by one source so far. It is confirmed when a second, independent source reports the same thing.

Related stories

Other stories on the same subject from the last three days.

Top world stories now

How recent

The shading behind a date drains as it ages: full when new, three quarters at 1 hour, half at 6 hours, a quarter at 12 hours, empty after a day. The date is when the source published it.

Timeline

The line under a story shows when it was reported. Now is at the end. The shaded part runs from its first article to its latest; each mark is an article, taller where several came out within 15 minutes. In lists the line is the last two days, so stories compare; a faded start means the story began earlier. On a story page it runs from the first article to now.