Oireachtas Finance Committee meeting on Wed to discuss crypto

[Brendan Burgess]

Wed 17th May

13.30 Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach CR3, LH 2000​

Crypto: Discussion on Financial, Societal and Environmental Impacts

 

[Brendan Burgess]

It's unusual in that they don't say who is going to present to them.

Brendan

 

[DublinHead54]

Perhaps related to this and the fact several of the largest Crypto companies have operations in Ireland serving EU clients.


It “might be more accurate” to describe unbacked crypto assets as “Ponzi schemes” rather than investments, Central Bank governor Gabriel Makhlouf has said, warning Irish consumers that the asset class “should be treated with a large dose of scepticism”.

Crypto more like ‘Ponzi schemes’ than investments, says Makhlouf

Central Bank governor’s comments come weeks after EU voted in favour of sweeping regulations

www.irishtimes.com