Lee A Reiners

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| Duke FinTech

Coffee & Crypto Video Podcast: Season 2021, Episode 5

Duke's Jimmie Lenz and Lee Reiners discuss the promise and perils of settlement issues related to cryptocurrency trading.

| Duke FinTech

Coffee & Crypto Video Podcast: Season 2021, Episode 4

Discussion of the U.S. Senate version of the Bipartisan Infrastructure bill, and how issues surrounding cryptocurrency affected its debate and initial passage

| Duke FinReg Blog

A Trip Down Crypto's Memory Lane

The author reviews previous blog posts on cryptocurrency to see how well his analysis has held up.

| The Wall Street Journal

Op-Ed: Ban Cryptocurrency to Fight Ransomware

The existence of bitcoin benefits nobody except criminals and speculators.

| Duke FinReg Blog

Restoring Order in Crypto's Wild West

Many crypto asset firms have found it difficult, if not impossible, to obtain a banking relationship. But one unlikely state has been trying to change this — Wyoming.

| Duke FinTech

Coffee & Crypto Video Podcast: Season 2021, Episode 2

Are cryptocurrency prices too volatile to be used regularly as a medium of exchange at the retail level?

| Duke FinTech

Coffee & Crypto Video Podcast: Season 2021, Episode 1

What needs to happen to determine consistent, unmanipulated settlement prices?

| Duke FinReg Blog

Beware of the Bitcoin Balance Sheet

Cryptocurrencies are notoriously volatile. Therefore, public firms invested in cryptocurrency are unnecessarily risking wild swings in earnings.

| Duke Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2020-67

Cryptocurrency and the State: An Unholy Alliance

In choosing next steps, Congress and regulators must be careful to ensure that regulatory clarity does not come at the expense of sovereign authority.

| Duke FinReg Blog

What Congress Should Ask About Facebook's New Cryptocurrency

Here are some questions policymakers should consider asking at the hearings.

| Duke FinReg Blog

The SEC Should Continue to Say No to Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Products

The relationship between Bitcoin futures and the Bitcoin spot market is unstable and unknown.

| Duke FinReg Blog

High-Frequency Trading Comes to Cryptocurrency

Fresh insights on the role of HFT in the cryptocurrency market and highlighting of the associated risks.

| North Carolina Banking Institute Journal

Bitcoin Futures: From Self-Certification to Systemic Risk

Self-certification is an inappropriate process for listing complex new derivatives. The financial system would be better served by reverting to the mandatory pre-approval process which existed between 1974 and 2000.

| American Banker

The Problems With Crypto's Revolving Door

Ask any cryptocurrency company what its biggest challenge is, and it’ll likely tell you legal and regulatory issues.

| Duke FinReg Blog

Reflections on NYC Cryptocurrency Conference

Like any good professor, I offer my authoritative opinion, but the truth is, I don’t really know. Perhaps I would find out at Consensus.

| Duke FinReg Blog

For Bitcoin Futures, the CFTC Defends the Indefensible

Bitcoin futures contracts are susceptible to manipulation because their underlying Bitcoin reference price can be easily manipulated.

| Duke FinReg Blog

SEC Stands Firm Against New Bitcoin ETF Proposals

The SEC’s stance is disheartening to those who believed that the launch of Bitcoin futures contracts last month presaged a Bitcoin-related ETF.

| Duke FinReg Blog

Bitcoin Futures Are a Bad Idea

Why is there a persistent arbitrage opportunity available in the Bitcoin futures market?

| Duke FinReg Blog

Why a Bitcoin Bubble is a Good Thing

The cryptocurrency market is currently more 1990s Beany Baby bubble than housing market circa 2006, and that may actually be a good thing.

| Duke FinReg Blog

The Case for a Cryptocurrency Market Bubble

The signs of a bubble are all around us: sensational news stories, price volatility, fraud, and buying on hope