{"id":1477,"date":"2024-10-22T04:19:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T04:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2024-10-22T04:19:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T04:19:38","slug":"amid-kamala-harris-trump-polymarket-hype-cftc-chair-wary-of-turning-into-an-election-cop-wants-congress-to-make-moves-on-crypto-and-election-betting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=1477","title":{"rendered":"Amid Kamala Harris-Trump Polymarket Hype, CFTC Chair Wary Of Turning Into An &#8216;Election Cop&#8217; \u2014 Wants Congress To Make Moves On Crypto And Election Betting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Commodity Futures Trading Commission<\/strong> chair, <strong>Rostin Behnam,<\/strong> has urged Congress to address the regulation of cryptocurrency and election betting legislation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: Behnam made these remarks during the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association\u2019s annual meeting Monday, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/post\/322365\/cftc-chair-behnam-presses-congress-to-act-on-crypto-and-election-betting-legislation?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social\">reported <\/a>by The Block. He stated that the CFTC views event contracts on elections as illegal, and such offerings put the agency in a tough spot as an \u201celection cop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a classic area where I think Congress should actually weigh in,\u201d Behnam said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/10\/41441309\/henry-ford-wasnt-satoshi-nakamoto-but-auto-entrepreneur-may-have-predicted-bitcoin\">Henry Ford Wasn\u2019t Satoshi Nakamoto, But Auto &#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/10\/41443187\/amid-kamala-harris-trump-polymarket-hype-cftc-chair-wary-of-turning-into-an-election-cop-w\" alt=\"Amid\" kamala harris-trump polymarket hype cftc chair wary of turning into an cop wants congress to make moves on crypto and election betting>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair, Rostin Behnam, has urged Congress to address the regulation of cryptocurrency and election betting legislation. What Happened: Behnam made these remarks during the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association\u2019s annual meeting Monday, as reported by The Block. He stated that the CFTC views event contracts on elections as illegal, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}