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March 6, 2014 11:00 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/QYnFherfNRs/story01.htm
Happy Mutant congressman: if Bitcoin should be banned, why not dollarbills?
Senator Joe Manchin delivered a grandstanding, technologically clueless, facepalm-inducing request to the Treasury Department to ban Bitcoin. In response, Rep Jared Polis (who proudly wears Boing Boing tee-shirts in his spare time, and rocks some snazzy duds on the floor of Congress) wrote a mock-serious request for dollar bills to be removed from circulation, pointing out that practically every objection that Manchin raised over Bitcoin applies equally well to paper money.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/QYnFherfNRs/story01.htm
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