NYDFS's Ben Lawsky Reveals Plans for Transitional BitLicense at #Money2020

NYDFS's Ben Lawsky Reveals Plans for Transitional BitLicense at #Money2020

As revealed for the first time earlier today, The New York Department of Financial Services plans to give "transitional BitLicenses" to certain smaller digital currency companies seeking to do business in New York. NYDFS Superintendent Ben Lawsky gave some updates to the NYDFS's proposed BitLicense regulatory framework during his keynote speech at Money20/20. Lawsky repeated that Bitcoin software developers and individual users would not have to apply for a BitLicense. Lawsky also emphasized that individuals miners and even large mining pools would not need to apply for a BitLicense, this....


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