Wikileaks Reveal: Clinton Campaign Considered Digital Currency Donations
The WikiLeaks dump of John Podesta’s e-mails surrounding the Clinton campaign has yielded something of interest to Bitcoiners: the Clinton campaign chairman was interested in accepting a digital currency as a donation. In an e-mail to tech aide Teddy Goff, Podesta said that he was probably in favor of an alternative digital currency called Ven, as opposed to Bitcoin. Earlier in the e-mail thread, Stan Stalnaker of Hub, which utilizes the Ven digital currency, had written: As we discussed, Bitcoin is being used on the Republican side and could be a useful tool, but we think Ven is a better....
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