Re: NEM (XEM) Official Thread - New Update 0.6.42 - Please Update Your Nodes
FYI: Poloniex will no longer be offering services to residents of New York ...
If nobody saw this coming, you're incredibly naive.
Governments may praise crypto all they want, but in the end it challenges their positions of authority by undermining the fraud that is FIAT. I think this is just the tip of the iceberg for things to come:
http://www.coindesk.com/ny-bitcoin-business-45-days-bitlicense/
Problem is how can they even enforce this?
How would they know you are in New York?
Easy enough to provide a different address if it asks...
Databases of ips per country are available online for free.
State information can be extracted from the whois.
You can fool it by proxy or vpn.
easy ways around it i guess, but i never realised that ip addresses were linked to particular states, i thought it would be the US as a whole, but the US is a big country i guess, anyway NY is really only a small part of their business so i doubt they will be affected much.