Every now and then demand for regulations on crypto emerged given the risks involved on digital assets for investors and general people
Recently the Fed Governor made a statement regarding the crypto regulations and reasons for its requirement. Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller warned about risks involved in crypto assets to its investors that if they continuously made lossed of huge amounts then the situation will become not only economically worse but also morally intolerable.
While speaking at SNB-CIF Conference over Crypto Assets and Financial Innovation in Switzerland, Fed Governor Waller also noted that there would be lack of enough knowledge and awareness among investors regarding cryptocurrencies and investment that intolerance could occur that could lead to loss of all their money.
As per Waller if there were lossed that emerged as Terra ecosystem has witnessed this will create demand for regulations and hence he recommended to take action now. From a social perception another possible outcome is when the losses become widespread. In these terms, those losses become politically, practically or morally intolerable. When everyday regulator investors start to lose their savings and without no reason except the desire to participate in an ongoing hot market call for a collective action can mount quite rapidly.
Further, the Fed Governor said that better regulations within the fast growing and evolving cryptocurrency sector is required not to help investors with high net worth so that they won’t end up losing their money but everyone else then those.
Being high with the motivation in order to implement laws for cryptocurrency laws, Waller said that the whole society has the impulse to have governing regulations that would act for such markets that are nascent and poorly understood. Waller in his speech has dismissed the notion that established participants in crypto space object for regulations.
Additionally Waller also gave hints at the potential outlook of any such crypto regulations stressing that they should be more concentrated on educating and awaring retail investors. He stated that most of the lossed in crypto space had been associated with being highly poor due to diligence, poor management practices and poor financial advice.
Source: https://www.thecoinrepublic.com/2022/06/05/what-made-the-fed-governor-agree-to-push-regulations-for-crypto/