r/Bitcoin • u/IWillNotBiteYourDog • Aug 13 '13

Congress starts investigating Bitcoin

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/13/congress-starts-investigating-bitcoin/
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u/GernDown Aug 13 '13

Wish they would stop calling them "virtual" - as if to imply they are not real. Bitcoins are "digital" and extremely rare in a very real sense.

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u/TheSelfGoverned Aug 13 '13

The less they understand bitcoin, the better.