[2016-06-08] French Presidential Hopeful Calls for Bitcoin Ban

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The head of a major far-right political party in France has called for ending the use of bitcoin and other digital currencies in the European country.
In a note published last last month, Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Front and its expected candidate in the 2017 French presidential election, accused world leaders of seeking to create a world with no cash and positioned bitcoin as an effort fueled by Wall Street power brokers.

http://www.coindesk.com/french-presidential-hopeful-bitcoin-ban/