It’s because they only care about protecting banks, while they call it “protecting consumers.”

Look up the long history of the BitLicense, written by an unelected bureaucrat named Ben Lawsky.

After screwing over the entire state population, he got hired at Ripple. Now he works at NYDIG.
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