John McAfee: Government Wants to Control Bitcoin
In a blog post titled "Is 2016 the year that electronic currency challenges government?" on SiliconAngle, ace software personality Dr. John McAfee has said that governments have a strong interest in controlling digital currencies. "These governments are certainly interested in regulating and controlling the smallest things in our lives, and there is little doubt that its interests in digital currencies are going to be the same." He gave a strong vote of confidence to the possibility that digital currencies (such as Bitcoin) are an unavoidable reality for us. Central banks have also been....
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