CFTC Chair nominee Brian Quintenz posted several messages he'd exchanged with Tyler Winklevoss, seemingly in a bid to get his nomination process back on track.

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On Wednesday, at CoinDesk's Policy and Regulation event, one major topic of conversation was a post from former Commodity Futures Trading Commission Commissioner Brian Quintenz in which he shared chat logs from a conversation with Gemini co-founder and CEO Tyler Winklevoss, an unexpected move from a former public official waiting for the Senate to confirm him to head up the commodities regulator.

Quintenz's path to becoming chair of the CFTC seemed clear until late July, wh

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