CFTC Taps Coinbase Lawyer to Head Division Overseeing Bitcoin Futures

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

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