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Not in New York! It's bizarre. I spent four days trying every which way. I tried Gemini, localcrypto, kucoin, metamask and ledger, and those are just the ones I remember trying - there were others. All the services that process payments (are those called API's?) to all of those exchanges told me their services are "not supported" in New York. I am able to use coinbase, but am limited to $1000 a day. Now that I have some purchased, I can move it into Ledger and trade from there. But unless I can find someone to buy crypto for me and send it to a wallet of mine, I have to go slowly. Which turns out to have been good in this particular case, really. I am the ONLY person I know in the flesh who is remotely interested in crypto, and my friends and family all think I am insane for wanting to get in at all. Very interesting times!!!

I am not sure if it is still the case, but try Mandala.

This is what I get right up front. At least I haven't wasted time on kyc requirements, as I did for all the others. Any exchange that boasts it follows all legal requirements, as mandala does, is not going to work in NY except in small amounts. Very interesting! New York is at the forefront of not allowing people to reduce reliance on fiat. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised - everything is illegal in NYS.

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everything is illegal in NYS.

Except on Wall Street.

hahahaha! Other places too, all upper echelons of fiat finance structures. I'm one of the rats, and I am expected to do as told or starve.