The kiosks, the warnings, and the ban

ROW 82-10 · DUG · REGISTRIES READ NOVEMBER 2026 · THE BAN DATED MARCH 9, 2026

Before the state answered, the machines were here — three of them, at postal-Granger addresses the registries name: the Coin Cloud registry lists a Digital Currency Machine — buy and sell over thirty cryptocurrencies — at the Capital Express Mart, 14010 Cleveland Road, Granger, shown active as read; the LibertyX registry lists its Bitcoin purchase points at the Walgreens, 13060 Adams Road, Granger, and the CVS, 12544 IN-23, Granger. The caveat of this whole build rides on the list: registry addresses are postal addresses, and the Cleveland Road machine stands on the CDP's southern corridor, where the Mishawaka line runs close; the two State Road 23 / Adams Road points stand in the CDP's own retail ground. At postal strength, then, a Granger resident in 2025 could buy bitcoin for cash within the place's own stores, in the middle of a national fraud wave the FBI counted at nearly $250 million in reported crypto-ATM losses in 2024.

The warnings came in sequence, and each is dated. On October 5, 2022, Attorney General Todd Rokita warned Hoosiers about government-imposter scams in terms that named the payment rail — do not wire money, send cash, or use gift cards or cryptocurrency to pay someone claiming to be the government — and in a companion warning the same season, Rokita and Secretary of State Holli Sullivan warned Hoosiers to be aware of cryptocurrency scams outright, the Securities Division of the Secretary of State named as the state's investigating arm for crypto fraud. The legislative answer then went further in Indiana than anywhere else in the country: House Enrolled Act 1116, Virtual Currency Kiosks — a bill that began in January 2026 as a licensing scheme (money-transmitter licensing and Department of Financial Institutions authorization for every kiosk) and was amended in committee in February 2026 into an outright prohibition — was signed by Governor Mike Braun on March 9, 2026, effective on passage, making Indiana the first state to ban cryptocurrency ATMs statewide. Operating a kiosk is an actionable deceptive consumer sales act; the Attorney General may sue the operator and the owner of the premises jointly; courts may order forfeiture of the machines and of the charges collected from their users. Nearly 900 kiosks were running in Indiana when the ban was signed, on the legislative record. The three registry listings above are therefore printed as the record of a closed chapter: as of the build month, a crypto ATM operating at any of those addresses would be operating against Indiana law, whether or not every registry has caught up with the fact. A companion measure of the same session, HB 1042, took the opposite door — authorizing the state's public retirement and savings plans to gain exposure to digital assets — and its pension provisions were being weakened in committee as the kiosk ban advanced; the two together are the state's whole 2026 answer, and both are printed so neither is mistaken for the other.

Sources:

1. Crypto-ATM registries as read November 2026: Coin Cloud (the Capital Express Mart DCM, 14010 Cleveland Rd, Granger); LibertyX (Walgreens, 13060 Adams Rd; CVS, 12544 IN-23, Granger) — registry/postal strength, as printed.
2. Attorney General Todd Rokita's warnings, fall 2022 (in.gov event record, October 5, 2022, and the joint Rokita–Sullivan cryptocurrency-scam warning) — the payment-rail wording and the Securities Division's role.
3. HEA 1116 (2026): the introduced bill's licensing scheme and fiscal note (Legislative Services Agency) and the committee amendment to a ban (Indiana Capital Chronicle, February 11, 2026); the signing, March 9, 2026, effective on passage, first-in-the-nation (Indiana Executive Council on Cybersecurity blog, in.gov; AARP Indiana; Decrypt, 2026, counting ~900 kiosks at signing).
4. 1st Source Bank, "Crypto ATM Scams: Why Indiana Banned the Machines" (2026) — a bank seated on this ground explaining the ban to its own customers; the FBI IC3 figures it cites (10,956 kiosk complaints in 2024; ~$246.7 million in losses).