Joshua B. Sterling is a Partner at Jones Day where he represents financial services, energy, fintech, agriculture and other companies in matters before the CFTC, the SEC, and other financial regulators. A former senior regulator, Josh was previously the Director of the CFTC’s Market Participants Division. In that role, he oversaw the 3,300 financial firms worldwide registered with the CFTC to participate in the global derivatives markets.

Show highlights:

[1:00] Josh's introduction to Bitcoin

[5:00] BitMEX case

[11:00] 2008 financial crisis

[16:00] Finance and Web3

[20:00] Role of CFTC in crypto

[25:00] Role of the SEC

[29:00] How to improve the SEC's results

& much more.

We also discuss the book The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest.

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#124 - Former CFTC Director Josh Sterling on choosing regulators (SEC vs CFTC) and the future of Web3