#USA

Jamie Smith who had previously worked at the White House as the president’s special assistant has taken the position of Bitfury’s head of global communications department.

Speaking at a guest lecture held at the Harvard School of Law, a member of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, J. Christopher Giancarlo, stated that the blockchain could deprive professional accounants and recordkeepers from employment when adopted in the mainstream.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a claim in a court stating that founder of two mining companies established a Ponzi scheme in order to pocket money of his investors. The companies in question are ZenMiner and GAW Miners, both of which are owned by Homero Garza.