Chamber of Digital Commerce Urges Industry to Submit Comments on Proposed NYDFS Regulation

Chamber of Digital Commerce Urges Industry to Submit Comments on Proposed NYDFS Regulation

Perianne Boring's Chamber of Digital Commerce was recently announced at the North American Bitcoin Conference, and already they're issuing a call-to-action to companies and members of the cryptocurrency industry. In a Wednesday statement, the Chamber issued a statement in which they called the proposed New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) bitcoin regulations "severely debilitating" to the cryptocurrency industry as we know it. From Wednesday's statement: Despite Ben Lawsky's claims that these proposed regulations are intended to be guardrails to "protect consumers and....


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