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CFTC Taps Coinbase Lawyer to Head Division Overseeing Bitcoin Futures

New CFTC Chairman Heath Tarbert has named Coinbase general counsel Dorothy DeWitt as the agency's new director of market oversight.

By Nikhilesh DeSep 17, 2019

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