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Bitcoin Foundation responds to Joe Manchin’s call for ban

By Ashe Schow
Published February 27, 2014 5:00am ET
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Bitcoin Foundation responds to Joe Manchin’s call for ban
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., who has called for a ban on Bitcoin, talks to reporters as he leaves a Democratic caucus meeting at the Capitol in Washington on Sept. 17. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) | J. Scott Applewhite

A lawyer for the Bitcoin Foundation has responded to Sen. Joe Manchin‘s call to ban the popular cryptocurrency by offering to educate the West Virginia senator on its merits.

Patrick Murck, general counsel for the Bitcoin Foundation, a nonprofit devoted to promoting Bitcoin, offered information about the positives and negatives of the cryptocurrency in a letter to Manchin.

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