Bitcoin Takes Stage In Texas Senate Campaign

The commission ultimately — and unexpectedly — deadlocked on a decision on whether political committees could accept bitcoin donations. FEC chair Ellen Weintraub told the Washington Post that the issue needed more examination, but that it could come up again. “We have not seen the last of bitcoin,” she said.

Henson, at the Texas Politics Project, says he doesn’t see it going very far in the immediate future. There are still too many broad questions about crypto-currency like bitcoin for it to be taken too seriously.

But there’s always a demand for anonymity and obscuring money in politics, he says. “As long as it lasts as a medium and campaigns are interested in it, it will have to come up again.”

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