Bitcoin Quandary

12/05/2013 Mises Wire Mark Thornton

It is important for our system of payments to improve over time and this means that we need experiments like Bitcoin to take place. Ron Paul says that if Bitcoin is successful then the government will crush it. Now there is a problem.

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