02/14/2011
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"So you could envision perhaps an international agreement which made these private cryptocurrencies illegal and legitimate only the centrally backed or central bank-backed currency, something like that..."
"I think that there is a high likelihood that over time more and more people will think that a digital currency issued by the central bank is something that the U.S. should be involved in, and so it is..."
"Even if every major country went into a position of issuing a digital currency, would the private digital currencies still exist?"
"Congress should move very quickly to pass legislation to increase the visas, the SIV, for personnel that have been very critical to our operations in Afghanistan, and also streamline the process."