Congress Has Kicked The Cyber Hornet's Nest
It shouldn’t be surprising that a decentralized, open-source monetary network is good at organization.Written August 12, 2021.With the debate over the infrastructure bill, policymakers were caught off guard. Few in Washington anticipated Bitcoiners’ ability to respectfully and relentlessly express our disdain toward unnecessary regulation that is likely to have unintended consequences.The last few weeks were truly an incredible moment in time. Never before has such a multidisciplinary, multigenerational and multiparty group come together to show Congress the power of a decentralized....
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