New York State has developed rules for companies working with Bitcoin

And not only with Bitcoin, but with any other virtual currency. The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) has proposed its own version of the rules for all companies that sell or buy virtual currencies, including exchange transactions. These rules are likely to affect other states, where now the work of private companies with virtual currency is also analyzed.

The offer includes the requirement to purchase a special license “BitLicense,” which will grant permission for individuals and companies to perform such operations.
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For miners and persons performing infrastructure infrastructure support for Bitcoin, such licenses are not needed.

So, the rules developed by DFS include, in addition to the BitLicense, the requirement to keep in reserve the amount of funds in the volume in which the company's customers have invested (and the reserve must be in the same virtual currency that the customers have invested) .

In addition, companies doing operations with virtual currencies should work with real names and addresses of customers , warning the latter about the possible risks of working with virtual currency.

And another interesting point is that companies must notify the authorities about conducting transactions with virtual currency in the amount of 10 thousand US dollars (equivalent).

In such a company, the position of a “security officer” (computer security specialist) must be introduced, and there must be an appropriate office (that is, a room) where the security service would work (even if it consists of one person).

All these proposals are publicly submitted to the court, which has 45 days to make comments / suggestions (there is even a branch on Reddi t, created by the head of the above-mentioned New York Financial Services). New rules will come into force in September this year.

In general, the authorities of other regions / countries can adopt the experience of New York, after which the need to maintain mandatory customer identification, specifying names / addresses, will make anonymous networks not very anonymous, to say the least.

Via theverge + document itself