“The Senate Homeland Security Committee, officials tell TIME, plans on holding hearings on Bitcoin within the month. The committee sent letters to nine federal agencies in July asking for their thoughts on Bitcoins and other virtual currencies in the hopes of developing a holistic approach to the so-called cryptocurrency that neither stifles the currency’s potential nor enables criminals to abuse it. ‘As with all emerging technologies, the federal government must make sure that potential threats and risks are dealt with swiftly,’ Committee Chairman Tom Carper, a Delaware Democrat, and the committee’s top Republican, Tom Coburn, wrote in the letters.”

http://swampland.time.com/2013/10/31/the-deep-web-has-washington-worried/

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