2012-08-09 forbes.com Parallel currencies and Monetary Freedom

[marcus_of_augustus]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/08/07/parallel-currencies-and-the-roadmap-to-monetary-freedom

Then, a bit of bitcoin drama occurred when Rep. David Schweikert (R-Arizona) initially referred to the cryptocurrency as “um….what was one of them called?….something….coin” near the end of the hearing. To my knowledge, that is only the second time that bitcoin has been entered into the congressional record. The first being when Prof. Larry White mentioned bitcoin in his prepared testimony for the Free Competition in Currency Act of 2011.

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[kiba]

duplicate:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99102.0

[marcus_of_augustus]

duplicate:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99102.0

Damn, I must be blind ... oh well something this good won't hurt being posted twice ... of course, if anyone has to delete it go ahead.