NY State Dept. of Financial Services Names Witnesses For Hearings

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The New York State Department of Financial Services has today named the witnesses for their planned hearing on virtual currency scheduled on Tuesday, January 28th and Wednesday, January 29th.

The five-panel hearings will include participants like Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Circle’s Jeremy Allaire, Fred Ersham of Coinbase, Charles Lee, the man who founded litecoin, SecondMarket CEO Barry Silbert, Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, and more.

Here is the full schedule:

Tuesday, 28 January 2014

Panel 1 (11:30am – 1:30pm) – The Investor Perspective: The Future of Virtual Currencies

• Barry Silbert: CEO of SecondMarket / Founder, Bitcoin Investment Trust
• Jeremy Liew: Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners
• Fred Wilson: Parter, Union Square Ventures
• Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss: Principals, Winklevoss Capital Management

Panel 2 (2:30pm – 4:30pm) – Virtual Currencies and Regulation in an Evolving Landscape

• Charlie Lee: Litecoin creator
• Judie Rinearson: Parter, Bryan Cave
• Carol Van Cleef: Partner, Patton Boggs

Wednesday, 29 January 2014

Panel 1 (10:00am – 11:00am) – Law Enforcement and Virtual Currencies

• Cyrus R. Vance, Jr.: District Attorney of New York County
• Richard B. Zabel: Deputy U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York

Panel 2 (11:30am – 1:30pm) – Virtual Currency Commerce and Consumer Protections

• Fred Ersham : Coinbase co-founder
• Jeremy Allaire: CEO, Circle Internet Financial
• Overstock.com Representative (not yet named)

Panel 3 (2:30pm – 4:00pm) – The Academic View on Virtual Currencies

• Ed W. Felten – Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs, and Director of the Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University
• Susan Athey: Professor, Stanford University

It has been previously discussed that the possibility of BitLicenses (licenses given to businesses who deal with virtual currency) may be discussed at the hearing.

We’ll have more information come Tuesday, as it becomes available. (via NYDFS)