Earlier this month, State Senator Mike Gabbard introduced the Uniform Regulation of Virtual Currency Businesses Act in the Hawaii legislature. We worked with the Senator on this initiative and are proud that he has taken the leadership on this issue. The model act was also recently introduced in Nebraska.
Last year the Uniform Law Commission, a private body of lawyers and legal academics from the several states, voted to approve a uniform model state law for the regulation of virtual currency businesses. We were highly involved in developing the model act’s language, which gives the states a clear path for updating their money transmission rules in a way that accounts for this technology’s unique characteristics such as shared custody over a multisignature wallet.