Hawaii Crypto

02/02/2024

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The aloha state was notoriously unfriendly toward crypto. That may have just changed.

01/17/2024

The NFT project is a genesis collection of three distinctive non-fungible token (NFT) artworks inspired by Hawaii’s ocean, astrology and the 1970s.

10/01/2023

The partnership between Fish Pono and the Vanishing Murals project by artist Jana Ireijo helps share the message that by living pono, in balance with nature, we will ensure healthy reefs, abundant with life for our future ʻohana.

By living pono, in balance with nature, we will ensure healthy reefs, abundant with life for our future ʻohana.

09/05/2023

Jeremy Koski, 45, of Kapaau, Hawaii, was charged with securities fraud for allegedly posting fake notices online.

07/13/2022

Companies who will continue their participation include Apex Crypto, bitFlyer, BlockFi, Cloud Nalu, Coinme, ErisX, Flexa, Gemini, River Financial, SoFi, and UpholdInc.

The DCIL will be admitting new companies when it opens its new application cycle in the third quarter of this year.

07/04/2022

Next time an "expert" at a dinner party starts mansplaining why crypto is nothing but a scam for suckers, point them to these retorts.

Another market downturn brings another round of crypto critics crying, "I told you so." Use this handy one-sheeter to respond to them.

06/02/2022

The extension comes at a critical point in time, as a pivotal bill that provided for the licensure of digital currency companies died during the recent 2022 Hawaii state legislative session. Without a licensing scheme in place, the DCIL was expected to close on June 30, 2022.

The Division of Financial Institutions, Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs (“DFI”), and Hawai‘i Technology and Development Corporation (“HTDC”) today

06/01/2022

Iris Ikeda, Commissioner of the Division of Financial Institutions, didn’t have many words of comfort for Hawaii residents worried about their cryptocurrency holdings given the failure of HB2108 earlier this year.

"We depended on the licensure law to prolong or extend the digital currency innovation lab, but that did not happen."

04/26/2022

Seeking nonprofit organizations that are actively fundraising or investing via Bitcoin and digital currencies or are researching the practice.

04/25/2022

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04/22/2022

"Blockchain in Paradise" meetup by Chris "Vagobond" Damitio tonight at 6pm at Wholefoods Market Kakaako!

  GM and Happy Aloha Friday! This is the first of what I hope to be a long series of Aloha Friday blockchain releases. What I’m doing here is just putting together all the info I can fin…