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How would you feel if I sent you a questionnaire that asked basic information that I think everybody who reads your tweets should know about your personal life in order to trust you? You might also ask "is it worth my time?", "On what authority?", "How about no?"

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Jesse Powell

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Sep 27, 2018

We have answered these questions for regulators who have authority over us. We should not be expected to divert any resources away from serving our clients toward responding to randos in NY, North Korea, Mordor, nor any other jurisdiction we don't serve.

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Jesse Powell

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Sep 27, 2018

Unfortunately, it was going to be quite a heavy lift -- not something an intern could have completed on their own by lunch time. But also, on principle, even if it were free in terms of resources, why not allocate those resources to our clients instead? We have no business in NY.

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bitFlyer chose to respond to the inquiry but I also very much understand

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stance. The questionnaire took bandwidth away from other projects we were working on and a lot of questions could have led to exchanges disclosing potentially proprietary information.