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Bitcoin donations accept been allowance homeless people, Ebola patients, Edward Snowden, and hundreds of added causes. Now, bitcoin will be allowance U.S. Senator Rand Paul armamentarium his 2016 presidential campaign.
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Rand Paul’s accommodation to acquire bitcoin sets himself afar from the blow added politicians in the US. Besides a few state-level politicians, Paul is the aboriginal political applicant to acquire bitcoin for attack donations. The first-term agent does not accept to anguish about acknowledged issues accepting bitcoin either; the Federal Elections Commission voted 6-0 in 2014 to acquiesce Bitcoin donations to political committees.
Paul is not new to cryptocurrency. He has consistently advocated Bitcoin and has alike fabricated suggestions for how Bitcoin could be bigger in adjustment to accretion a greater role in the banking world. In an account with Fortune Magazine, Paul said the would like to see a Bitcoin-like bill backed by a bassinet of stocks — abundant like Hayek’s clandestine cardboard money backed by a basket of commodities.
Bitcoin’s Poor Political Track Record
Despite Rand Paul’s agitative move to acquire Bitcoin, the abstracts calm about Bitcoin donations for political campaigns shows a poor almanac of success. After Jim Fulner, a Libertarian US senate applicant from Michigan, started accepting Bitcoin, he accepted that he accustomed two Bitcoin donations that were each account decidedly beneath than $100. Similarly, Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) additionally accepted that his attack alone accustomed hardly added than $2,000 in Bitcoin donations. Hovever, Polis abhorrent the FEC, which has set a $100 absolute for donations.
This $100 limit was supported by FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub. The Democratic appointee said that the absolute was important, as it assuaged the apropos of several commissioners concerning the risks of cryptocurrency. Additionally, Weintraub argued that the limit reduced the accident of foreigners application Bitcoin to illegally armamentarium elections.
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