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New York's Bitcoin Hub Dreams Fade With Licensing Backlog


Ron Burgundy
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A customer feeds cash currency in to a Bitcoin ATM located in Flat 128, a boutique in New York's West VillageNew York's financial regulator had sights set on becoming a global hub for innovations like bitcoin when it adopted trailblazing virtual currency rules last year. Since June 2015, New York has required virtual currency firms doing business there to get a "BitLicense" to hold customer funds and exchange virtual coins for dollars and other regular currencies. Benjamin Lawsky headed the Department of Financial Services (DFS) when it developed those rules, acting as an early advocate of virtual currencies when other regulators were still skeptical.




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