Brian Quintez, the candidate of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to direct the futures trade commission of the basic products, published an exchange of text he had with Tyler Winklevos in his first public statement since his confirmation process seemed to stop during the summer in the white house direction, saying that he believed Trump “could have been evil.”
Quintenz shared a series of text messages that said he had exchanged with Tyler Winklevos, co -founder and CEO of Crypto Exchange Gemini, which will be made public this week, and Winklevos Capital. Cameron Winklevos, the twin brother and co-founder of Tyler, may also have been in the group chat, which was titled “TW-CW-BQ” but did not send any message in the screenshots shared by Quintenz. In the Chat, dated July 24, Tyler Winklevos asked Quininnz if he had seen an X position since June 17, where Tyler announced that Gemini had filed a complaint with the Inspector General of CFTC about the control lawyers division that they had received charges against Gemini.
“I think these texts make it clear what they were after me, and what I refused to promise,” Quintenz said in his publications, representing a very unusual movement for a nominated in the middle of a federal confirmation process. “I understand that after this exchange they contacted the president and asked that my confirmation stop for reasons other than what is reflected in these texts.”
Before the Senate left Washington for its August break, the Quintenz nomination was established for what was believed to be an easy procedure step in the Senate Agriculture Committee to advance to the floor for its final confirmation vote. But the White House stopped that vote for reasons that did not make clear at that time, although Gemini’s co -founder, Tyler Winklevos, had been fighting a rhetorical campaign to stop his confirmation.
Winklevos told Coindesk in an interview in July that he had been making the case that Quintenz was a bad choice due to the former commissioner to increase the CFTC budget to supervise the cryptographic industry, his previous opinions on legal responsibility for cryptocurrency developers and what Winklev The CFTC in the bravery of the cryptitous prediction market Kalshi.
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Quintenz’s publication on Wednesday suggested that, in his opinion, Winklevos was upset because Quintenz did not join the criticism of the CFTC application efforts after the agency pursued charges against Gemini that resolved in January.
“I know we had talked about this in the winter where I remembered my extreme original disappointment in [the Enforcement Division] To pursue this so aggressively, “said a text by Quintenz.” I promise to have a fair and reasonable review of the matter and division and individuals involved to determine whether they acted in an inappropriate way. “
He continued to say that a “totally confirmed chair” should be the person to handle the matter, but that if someone currently used by the CFTC “communicated with” the Winklevosses, would have to “give that careful thought.”
Winklevos asked if Quintenz was saying that Gemini should have waited to file his complaint until after the Senate confirmed the former commissioner, to which Quintenz replied that “any decision or response to his complaint should be presented and given the total weight of the confirmed chair.”
The Crypto executive said they had talked about the CFTC application effort against Gemini after Quintenz asked for the support of the Winklevos brothers in December.
“The cultural reform, which includes rectifying what happened to us, should be the highest priority,” Winklevos said. “I would like to understand his thoughts about this and how he plans to align with President Trump and the administration’s mandate to end the law and make peace for it.”
He added that “he would be happy to raise the problem with the same president” if Quintenz thought he was being undermined by CFTC’s current employees.
Quintenz, Winklevos and a Gemini spokesman did not immediately respond to comments requests. Coendesk could not independently verify the authenticity of the texts.
In July, a coalition that represented the vast majority of the cryptographic industry went out to press President Donald Trump to move forward to confirm Quintenz, calling him the “right person at the right time” to manage the CFTC. Although the Senate has returned from rest for a while and has returned to its confirmation work for many of Trump’s appointed, the committee has not yet scheduled a follow -up vote for Quintenz
Meanwhile, the president of the Commission of Securities and Securities, Paul Atkins, has advanced in an initiative of “Crypto” friendly for the industry, while the temporary chief of the CFTC, the interim president, Caroline Pham, has been in the sister agency with a similar “crypto sprint”. The two have made recent joint movements to clear the regulatory route for digital assets.
