Do we really see NYSDFS Bitcoin regulations promulgated anytime soon? We are now well past the comment period for the second draft (which ended in late March).
I just don't see it. It will make Ben Lawsky a hypocrite. I just don't think he wants that to be his legacy, and I feel he won't let it. Hence, nothing gets promulgated for quite a long long time and it will be a seriously scaled down version of what the second draft is.
For those without the background, here are links with a short blurb about each one:
Link #1
Here's the CNBC video, where Lawsky speaks to bitcoin as an agent of change and his desire to bring bitcoin companies to New York:
http://video.c[Suspicious link removed]m/gallery/?video=3000252988
Link #2
Here's the link with the following Andreas Antonopolous' quote, which is as follows:
Bitcoin entrepreneurship is already moving overseas and moving at an accelerated rate. Give it a month and New York will be a wasteland in terms of bitcoin innovation because it will be deserted as soon as the BitLicense starts up with the exception of one or two banking players who are going to find it a very fertile environment to create non-bitcoin lookalikes in New York. But everyone else is going to leave, and theyre already leaving.
http://insidebitcoins.com/news/3-key-points-from-andreas-antonopouloss-qa-at-mit-bitcoin-club/30015