If Bitcoin continues to attract attention, mostly as a way to finance purchases on Web sites like Silk Road, it is going to find itself in the digital wasteland.
Chuck Schumer: “If Bitcoin continues to attract attention, mostly as a way to finance purchases on Web sites like Silk Road, it is going…”
On the recordNovember 18, 2013
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Schumer warns that Bitcoin's association with crime could jeopardize its future.
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