BitInstant: We Have Money Transmitter Licenses in 30 States
Regulation has been a hot topic in the Bitcoin community since the FINCEN guidance in March, and in the Bitcoin conference that took place this past weekend an entire quarter of the conference was dedicated to economic and regulatory issues. The guidance evoked strong feelings of both relief and uncertainty throughout the Bitcoin community; although....
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The new license from Puorto Rico further strengthens Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao's vision to be licensed everywhere. Puerto Rico becomes the fourth jurisdiction in America to grant a money transmitter license to Binance.US, the American arm of the crypto exchange Binance. Other states that issued operational licenses to Binance.US include Wyoming, Connecticut and West Virginia. Binance.US was launched as a second attempt by Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao to cater to investors in the United States as the nation banned Binance’s primary operations, citing regulatory concerns. The new license from....
Marco Santori of the Bitcoin Foundation has a piece up on CoinDesk in which he explores money transmission licenses at the state level in the US. This, he argues, is much trickier than simple FinCEN registration. The state with jurisdiction ultimately decides whether to grant a business a license to transmit money. It’s not a right, and it’s no entirely predictable for a 50-state rollout. Also, because a business meets FinCEN’s definition of a money transmitter does not mean the same applies at the state level. South Carolina and Montana do not even require licenses for such companies, and....
Coinapult, a payment processor and storage provider, is now offering its bitcoin wallet services for US customers. Prior to this, the company's website had been blocked in the country since it had not yet obtained the necessary licenses then. The company has since come up with an integration with Crypto Capital, which is a licensed money transmitter in Panama. With that, the bitcoin wallet can allow US clients to deposit, withdraw, and transfer currencies. Bitcoin Wallet Services. "Coinapult is not a licensed money transmitter business, and as such, we did not offer our services to the US....
The US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) published two new rulings on 30th January that aim to bring clarity as to which players in the virtual currency space will fall under the Bank Secrecy Act's (BSA) definition of a money transmitter. FinCEN said that miners who mine virtual currency for their own use, as well as companies that purchase and sell convertible virtual currency solely as an investment aren't subject to this law. "The first ruling states that, to the extent a user creates or "mines" a convertible virtual currency solely for a user's own purposes, the user is not....
The United States Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced two administrative rulings Thursday with regard to whether an individual or business's actions in the virtual currency space would classify them as a money transmitter, thereby being requiring them to register with FinCEN. The first ruling notes that miners of virtual currencies, the most popular of which is bitcoin, who do so for their own purposes are not considered to be a money transmitter. They will not have to register with FinCEN. The second ruling states that companies that buy....