Bitcoin-Mining Politician Accepting Bitcoin Campaign Donations
We’ve written before about enterprising American politicians accepting Bitcoin donations for their political campaigns. But B.J. Guillot is different. On Thursday, Guillot’s campaign announced that they will be accepting donations in Bitcoin. Guillot is a Republican running for Congress in Washington’s 2nd congressional district against the Democratic incumbent, Representative Rick Larsen. He also mines Bitcoin. And he’s been doing it for a while. Guillot started mining with desktop computers before working up to specialized Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) mining equipment,....
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