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Board Service Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: ShapeShift.io - Instant Coin Exchange - No Account Needed
by
pawel7777
on 14/09/2018, 20:48:15 UTC
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Compliance is based on legal requirements of the country their company is registered. I thought they were registered in Latvia. What would happen if they "moved" to Costa Rica?

Nope, compliance is based on legal requirements of every country they provide their services to. You could be registered in Latvia, but if you provide services to customers from US, you have to comply with US law. That's why many gambling sites, ICO, exchanges are inaccessible from US.

You could bypass that by blocking ip of the countries you're not compliant with, but that's not good for business and doesn't 100% protect you from prosecution.