Political Financing and Bitcoins


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DATE: Sept. 15, 2013, 3:59 p.m.

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  1. bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-05/bitcoin-and-politics-
  2. what-could-go-wrong-.html Looks like another step
  3. forward in "legitimacy" from the establishment for
  4. Bitcoin. Bloomberg article notes: "The Federal Election
  5. Commission has received a request from a political action
  6. committee called the Conservative Action Fund, which
  7. seeks an advisory opinion on accepting contributions in
  8. bitcoins. The PAC spent more than $300,000 in behalf of
  9. Republicans in the 2012 election cycle and is looking to go
  10. deep on Bitcoin in 2014. " Read the rest here.
  11. It looks like the GOP down south is seeing Bitcoins as a
  12. way around campaign financing laws. Could this spread
  13. up here? What would happen if one of the major parties
  14. accepting Bitcoin? What happens if Trudeau & Liberals
  15. came out for Bitcoin? Heck he's already got the marijuana

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