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Which he struck a very humble but sort of defensive tone in saying that libra is not intended to be an investment vehicle. Its intended to be a payment vehicle that the crypt okurancy will not be used for monetary policy, and sort of defending this as a way for facebook to provide Economic Opportunity to its users. But of course, he is going to be facing a very hostile environment when he testifies tomorrow, and certainly well see if that same tone is echoed by the treasury secretary when he speaks in just a few minutes. This is most notable because this comes just days after President Trump tweeted specifically about libra as well as cryptocurrencies, that could be construed, Steven Mnuchin is approaching the podium lets go to him right now. Recently, as you know, theres been a great deal of interest about Digital Assets, including cryptocurrency such as bitcoin and libra. There are many regulatory and supervisory questions regarding libra, virtual assets, and virch wal currencies but
This coming after an explosive hearing at hill between democratic lawmakers and former i. C. E. Chief tom homan. Im extremely frustrated. Im not calling on you, sir. Of course not. Your comments are disgusting. I find your comments disgusting as well sir. I served 34 years. Charles National Border Patrol Council president , workers at one minnesota shipping facility using amazon prime day to go on strike, what they are going, what are we going to find out how we impact that juggernaut that is amazon. All that and so much more on making money. Charles treasury secretary steve mnuchin. Thank you for being here. Recently as you know there has been a great deal of interest about Digital Assets including cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and libra. There are many regulatory, and supervisory questions regarding libra, Virtual Assets and Virtual Currencies but i will focus primarily on the serious concerns that the treasury harassing growing misuse of Virtual Currencies by money launderers, te
Making policy for all to see. A lot has changed but today that is more relevant than ever. On television and online, cspan is your relevant provider. Treasury secretary, steve manuchy held a conference at the white house on how they will use crypt to currencies and that facebooks currencies could be used by Money Laundering. And asked about the freshman tweets by freshman lawmakers, he said he didnt find the tweets racist. This is about a half hour. Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for being here. As you know there have been a great deal of interest about crypt to assets such as bitcoin and libra. There are many questions regarding libra, Virtual Assets and virtual currencies. I will focus primarily on the concerns the treasury has about growing misuse of cryptocurrencies by money launderers, and financiers and other bad players. Going to capital hill, going to congress about the cryptocurrency, libra. In the International Community there has been a great deal of activity recently
Community there has been a great deal of activity recently related to the regulation and the treatment of Digital Assets with crypto currencies. I would like to give some brief explanatory remarks about what we have been doing on this front since there is a lot of interest and then i will open up to questions. Last month a consortium of 28 businesses including a facebook subsidiary is developing a crypto currency for go the Treasury Department has expressed very serious concerns it could be used by many launderers and terrorist. Crypto currencies such as bitcoin has been exploited for illegal activity from cybercrime or tax evasion, extortion, ran somewhere, illicit drugs, Human Trafficking those that attempt to use crypto currency defined maligned behavior and this is a National Security issue. The United States has been at the forefront of regulating entities that provide crypto currency. We will not allow Digital Assets to operate in the shadows to tolerate the use of the crypto cur