Munich Politician Urges City to Formally Adopt Bitcoin
A Munich city council rep has formally suggested for the city to accept Bitcoin for official payments. Andre Wächter, head of the Munich arm of Germany’s Alliance for Progress and Renewal (ALFA) party, made the proposal in direct opposition to the policies of the European Central Bank (ECB), local newspaper Abendzeitung reports. “The misguided politics....
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