Why Pro-Competition Consumer Finance May Not be Pro-Consumer Consumer Finance
On Wednesday, several major crypto companies told Congress that the best way to govern them – should this be needed at all – is to create a new federal regulator that knows its way around the blockchain. One trusts this proposal is a sincere effort at constructive engagement, but anyone who has run the financial-regulatory traps longer than a DLT minute knows that proposing a single regulator is the most effective way to look earnest and yet still roam free outside the regulatory perimeter. There is simply no way Congress will pull itself together to enact a single crypto regulator. And, even if Congress could do so, it shouldn’t.