2013-11-18 VICE The Feds Embraced Bitcoin in First-Ever Congressional Hearing

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The Feds Embraced Bitcoin in the First-Ever Congressional Hearing on Virtual Currency

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the-feds-embraced-bitcoin-in-the-first-ever-congressional-hearing-on-virtual-currency

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The chair of the Homeland Security committee, Sen. Tom Carper, went as far as to compare the fledgling currency to the invention of the internet: We were afraid the web would be used for illicit activity too, he said, but now it’s enabled services like Google and Facebook and YouTube that clearly benefit people’s lives.