Rand Paul Accepts Bitcoin for Presidential Campaign
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, who today formally announced his bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, has begun accepting bitcoin donations. Donors can select bitcoin from a number of available payment options, with bitcoin payments being enabled by processor BitPay. Paul is perhaps the most high-profile American politician to accept bitcoin donations, and latest of a number of state and national Republicans to turn to the digital currency for fundraising support. Last year, the US Federal Elections Commission gave its approval for bitcoin fundraising as a type of in-kind....
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Bitcoin donations have been helping homeless people, Ebola patients, Edward Snowden, and hundreds of other causes. Now, bitcoin will be helping U.S. Senator Rand Paul fund his 2016 presidential campaign. Rand Paul’s decision to accept bitcoin sets himself apart from the rest other politicians in the US. Besides a few state-level politicians, Paul is the first political candidate to accept bitcoin for campaign donations. The first-term senator does not have to worry about legal issues accepting bitcoin either; the Federal Elections Commission voted 6-0 in 2014 to allow Bitcoin donations to....