Abolish the Bitlicense !
Advocacy against the Regulation of an Intangible Commodity.
Hawaii
There are 3 bills that need attention in Hawaii.
There have been hearing scheduled at the last moment without any notice as if they are trying to
rush it undemocratically.
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Measure to defeat: SB2129 - HB2257
Measure to watch:SB2853
SB3082
Testify on Friday February 9 at 2 pm (02/07/2018)
It's in conference room 329.
https://www.meetup.com/AbolishTheBitlicense/events/247617027
9 parts youtube video workshop on how to participate in the How to Participate in the State of Hawai`i's Legislative Process
The Hawaii Cannabis project explain how to testify:
https://hawaiicannabis.org/how-to-testify-bill-the-hawaii-state-legislature
Call your State Senator & House Representative.
There have been hearing scheduled at the last moment without any notice as if they are trying to
rush it undemocratically.
Measure to defeat: HR2257.
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https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=HB&billnumber=2257&year=2018
Current Referral: IAC, CPC, FIN
Measure to defeat: SB2129.
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https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=2129&year=2018
Current Referral: CPH, JDC
Hawaii House Committee on Intrastate Commerce. (22 minutes)
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Where are the bitcoiners and the small business representatives ?
Call your House Representative
Call your State Senator and simply ask the staffer that they do not support HR2257.
Call your State Senator
Call your State Senator and simply ask the staffer that they do not support SB2129.
If your state senator are one of these legislator, Baker, S. Chang, Espero, Nishihara, Tokuda, TOKUDA, Ihara, or Kim, ask them to remove their endorsement to the bill.
If your state senator is Gabbard, ask him to remove the bill from consideration.
Measure to defeat: SB2129.
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https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=2129&year=2018
Current Referral: CPH, JDC
The Bitcoin Foundation explain why this bill must be defeated.
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The Bitcoin Foundation has been fighing this bill since July 2017.
The Uniform Law Commission is a group of lawyers from all part of the country that meet once a year to propose uniform legislations. It's a very specialize group of lawyer that sometimes is disconected from reality.
This is really the only time Bitcoiners have to influence their local lawmakers. https://bitcoinfoundation.org/reject-uniform-regulation-virtual-currency-businesses-act
Information on the Uniform Law Commission Bitlicense.
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More Information on the Uniform Law Process:
http://www.uniformlaws.org/Committee.aspx?title=Regulation%20of%20Virtual%20Currency%20Businesses%20Act
Donate to continue the fight against the New York Bitlicense. (4 minutes)