Jeff Bandman, Lecturer in Global Affairs at Yale University, is a advisor at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) where he spun up LabCFTC. In this chat with CoinDeskâs Pete Rizzo, he talks about âmurder boardsâ and what it took for Facebookâs David Marcus to face off the Federal Government.
âAfter I had started working at the CFTC all of a sudden on my calendar Iâd get these invitations and so I go to our Hill liaison and Iâd say âCorey what are these death-squads that have just appeared on my calendarâ and heâs like âJeff, itâs not a death squad itâs a murder board.'â
âA murder board is the term for when you prepare the boss to go in front of Congress and prepare them for questions and so the whole staff gets together and throws really hard questions at him,â he said.
Bandman believes Facebookâs biggest problem is mistrust.
âThereâs the backdrop of all the mistrust, the problems with Cambridge Analytica, the use or misuse of subscriber data the the the lack of disclosure so thereâs an enormous amount of mistrust,â he said. But, he noted, bitcoin was born during the financial crisis when disrupt was completely rampant in the finance industry.
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