based in part on their business line
performance, and
thus presented the potential for excessive risk taking, the HRC concluded that the emphasis on overall Company
performance in compensation decisions, the existence of
robust compliance, internal control, disclosure review and reporting programs and clawback policies, the Code of Ethics prohibition on, and right to discipline employees for manipulating business goals for compensation purposes and its prohibitions on derivative and hedging transactions in Company common stock, and the Company's stock ownership guidelines provided adequate safeguards that would either prevent or discourage excessive risk taking.
Recent developments aimed at making bitcoin more
robust have led to the improvement of bitcoin's
performance and
thus making bitcoin transactions more reliable and safe for the consumer.