Michael Frisch is a partner at Croke Fairchild Morgan & Beres where he leads the firm’s Government Litigation and Investigations Practice. Mike previously worked at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), where he brought one of the CFTC’s first enforcement actions involving cryptocurrency — CFTC v. Bitfinex — and was part of the team responsible for the CFTC’s action against Tether in 2021.

Show highlights:

[1:30] Mike's introduction to crypto

[3:00] The history of the CFTC's rules around crypto

[6:00] Masterclass on the CFTC

[13:00] Working on CFTC v. Bitfinex

[20:00] Coinbase's FCM registration

[24:00] FTX and the CFTC

& much more.

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#114 - CFTC Regulation of Crypto with Michael Frisch