CryptoDad: The Fight for the Future of Money

Leo Melamed, Man of the Futures: The Story of Leo Melamed & the Birth of Modern Finance

Many restaurants use the “Delmonico's” name. The original and, I believe, the best is at 56 Beaver Street in lower Manhattan

The future of the US economy—and, indeed, the world's—will be determined at the dynamic intersection of markets, technology, and politics.

This wave will do to currency, financial instruments, and economic activity what the Internet of Information did to knowledge: reduce costs, increase speed, transcend barriers, improve accessibility, enhance certainty, and decrease bottlenecks to instantaneous transactions across the globe.

We need officials with courage, determination, foresight, and the willingness to take risk.

America has gotten complacent. It has confused the Internet boom with the crypto boom, assuming that because we won one, we will win the other.

We must harness this unstoppable wave of digital money—the Internet of Value—to advance greater economic inclusion, financial and economic freedom, and human aspiration for generations to come.

It passed through that intersection of law, markets, and technology that consistently remained the course of my career.

urged the CFTC and other US market regulators to follow five principles when regulating digital markets: embrace innovation, protect intellectual property, repurpose old rules for an emerging digital age, unburden the economy for growth, and champion US markets.