US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Hearing on Virtual Currencies Highlights (video)
For those of you that were not able to view the US Senate hearings on Virtual Currencies [read: Bitcoin] do check out these highlights. Youtube user hromlery has been kind enough to highlight prominent US officials talking about Bitcoin. Even one year ago, nobody could have imagined this.
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