Patrick Nelson has been an advocate for bitcoin in his seven-year political career. He wants to see New York's BitLicense reformed and blockchain voting used in special cases.
Benjamin Lawsky, the former regulator who created New York’s BitLicense in 2015, joined a bitcoin fund manager nearly a year before it applied for, and received, the license.
Eris Clearing, the clearing and settlement arm of ErisX, has been awarded the hard-to-come-by Virtual Currency License from New York's Department of Financial Services.
An SPDI charter offered in Wyoming lets U.S. firms offer banking and custody services under a regulator that’s not the FDIC, but the application and capital requirements are a...