2016 Libertarian Candidate Continues Bitcoin Support
Sunday saw Gary Johnson become the Libertarian Party candidate in the 2016 US presidential election – and Bitcoin is already on board for donations. ‘Wild Card’ Libertarian Candidate Accepts Bitcoin. Johnson, who also stood in the 2012 race, is increasingly viewed as a “wild card” in this year’s campaign, as voters attempt to sidestep the major party....
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US presidential candidate Gary Johnson has won the Libertarian Party nomination. He is also the only major presidential candidate to accepting donations in Bitcoin. May 29th at the Libertarian Party convention in Orlando, Florida, Johnson was chosen as the party’s nominee. He placed first on a first ballot vote, though with insufficient margins to win outright. On the second ballot, Johnson secured the nomination, edging out Austin Petersen and John McAffee, respectively. According to the donation page on the Johnson campaign website, Bitcoin is mentioned among the accepted forms of....
About a month ago, New Hampshire State Representative Mark Warden pushed forward the legitimacy of Bitcoin in two very significant ways. First, he was the first major political candidate to accept Bitcoin for political donations. This was a significant milestone, both because the regulations around political donations make utilizing Bitcoin a much greater challenge than for any other kind of charity, and because it means that Bitcoin has support "within the government." Eric Olson, a Libertarian candidate in North Dakota, had been accepting Bitcoin for months before[1], but the Libertarian....