Bitcoin and DC
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From: Steven Sinofsk yf
Sent: 11/22/2013 3:48:56 PM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]]
Subject: Bitcoin and DC
Importance: — High
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/11/21/heres-how-bitcoin-charmed-washington
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Here's how Bitcoin charmed Washington
BY TIMOTHY B. LEE
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The Bitcoin Foundation's Patrick Murck testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee. (U.S.
Senate)
The pair of Bitcoin hearings held this week by Senate committees could have been a disaster for the
Bitcoin community. After all, Bitcoin first came to mainstream attention in 2011 when
Gawker reported on Silk Road, an anonymous online marketplace that allowed users to purchase a wide
variety of illegal drugs with Bitcoin. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) denounced the site and suggested
that Bitcoin was "an online form of money laundering." A few months ago, it would have been easy to
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