10 sats \ 1 reply \ @TonyGiorgio 26 Jan 2023 \ parent \ on: Prime Trust to cease all business in Texas effective 31 Jan 2023 bitcoin
I've gotten some emails from exchanges I forgot existed years ago that they were cutting off Texas last week. I wonder if they were using Prime Trust.
Most likely yes. Prime Trust is a single point of failure across the board, they are huge. They provide liquidity, custody, KYC and anti-fraud services so they are a whole workshop of tooling for Bitcoin or Crypto based startups.
I also suspect another reason Prime Trust is used is because they handle a good amount of licensing and legal issues state to state, which leads us to our current problem. Unless these exchanges have a money transmitter license or can switch out to a different provider (lmao) they have to shut down in the same regions as Prime Trust because they relied on Prime Trust's licensing to operate in that region in the first place.
So many companies are totally fucked.
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