CFTC Commissioner: Crypto Industry Should Regulate Itself

At the Yahoo Finance All-Markets Summit on February 7th, a U.S. CFTC regulator encouraged the digital currency industry to start formally regulating itself.
Brian Quintenz, a commissioner with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), said that the crypto industry should form what’s known as a self-regulatory organization, or SRO, similar to those that exist in other areas of the financial world, while the government tries to figure out what exactly to do about Bitcoin and over a th