Federal Reserve Bank CEO: ‘Bitcoin Facilitates Terrorist Activity’
San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank CEO John C. Williams, has stated at a recent FinTech conference that Bitcoin will facilitate crime and money laundering, despite there being very little evidence to back up these claims. The power and potential pitfalls of FinTech were discussed at the recent Lendit USA 2016 Conference. This presentation was given by....
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David Andolfatto, vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, came out Monday with some words that should be encouraging to the Bitcoin world. He said that the open-source, transparent, decentralized management of the blockchain, the ledger that underpins all Bitcoin transactions, is a "stroke of genius." He believes the Federal Reserve could do a lot better job in being accountable to the public. Also read: Bitcoin Price and the Federal Reserve. He derided the notion that Bitcoin or other digital currencies are the future, however, and unequivocally stated that nearly all....