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The bribery charges against former legislators J. Kalani English and Ty Cullen suggest they felt they had nothing to fear and that it didn't take much cash.
Democrats have such a complete lock on power in Hawaii and Republicans are so marginalized that there may be little political fallout from even these egregious cases.
Hawaii Business Magazine May 12, 2021 If you bought a single bitcoin for $1,000 in February 2017 and sold it four years later, you’d pocket around $50,000. But, if you lived in Hawai‘i, you probably didn’t buy Bitcoin after February 2017. That month, the digital currency exchange Coinbase ceased operations in Hawai‘i, blaming over-regulation. Local residents were given 30 days to transfer or sell their digital currency and close their accounts. Since then, digital currency exchanges have struggled to operate in Hawai‘i, but a pilot program started in 2020 opened the door for their return. The Digital Currency Innovation Lab, a joint project of the Hawai‘i Division of Financial Institutions and the Hawaii Technology Development Corp., is a novel approach to regulation. It’s a “regulatory sandbox,” with state regulators working closely with a select group of companies and gathering data to inform decisions about how to regulate the industry moving forward.