Summary: South Africa-based Cornelius Johannes Steynberg was fined $3.4 billion for running an unregistered Bitcoin commodity pool operation, the CFTC announced in a Thursday statement. Steynberg founded Mirror Trading International (MTI), a BTC pool operator that illegally accepted $1.7 billion from 23,000 U.S. citizens while operating out of SA. The news marks the largest civil monetary penalty ever won in the history of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, America’s commodities watchdog. The U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission was awarded $3.4
