US governments’ tepid approval sends BTC above $750

US governments’ tepid approval sends BTC above $750

After US authorities identified Bitcoin as a “legal means of exchange” before Congress, the currency hit a high water mark of $750 on the Mt. Gox exchange. The hearing, titled “Beyond Silk Road: Potential Risks, Threats, and Promises of Virtual Currencies” and held by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on November 18 in Washington, was called in the wake of the FBI’s shutting down of the Silk Road. Users of Silk Road, an unregulated online marketplace that allowed mail-order drug deals to flourish, paid in Bitcoin, and this become one of the dominant narratives....


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