While The Merge reduces energy consumption, the chair of the CFTC thinks that it's a step in the right direction, but not the solution.
Rostin Behnam, chair of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or CFTC, said the Ethereum blockchain’s transition to proof-of-stake may help reduce crypto’s energy usage, but hinted legislation would likely still be needed to address the problem.a question from Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, who brought up the environmental impact of the “significant energy” required of mining cryptocurrencies.
“We’ve all heard the statistics about the amazing amount of energy used to mine coins,” said Behnam. “I would say that an event occurred last night with Ethereum which is going to reduce energy consumption — a step in the right direction, but certainly not resolving the problem.
“[The bill] would provide the authority to the CFTC to regulate markets. This volatility, the fraud, the manipulation — much of it would probably go away because we now have a regulator, a cop on the beat, and this would deter activity by bad actors.”
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