Newport council candidate seeks bitcoin donations
Newport council candidate seeks bitcoin donations
- February 10, 2014
- Bill Maurer, anthropology and law professor and social sciences dean, is quoted in the OC Register February 10, 2014
rom the OC Register:
With a tidy goatee and dress shirt, Michael Glenn doesn't look like a rebel. But
the Republican candidate for Newport Beach City Council is among a small band of political
hopefuls across the country aiming to shake up the status quo. They're accepting campaign
contributions in a currency the government doesn't mint and one that has regulators
scratching their heads: bitcoins... The currency gives candidates a “technological
sheen” and shows a Libertarian streak, according to Bill Maurer, dean of Social Sciences
at UCI and co-director of the Intel Science and Technology Center in Social Computing.
For the full story, please visit http://www.ocregister.com/articles/bitcoin-601152-bitcoins-currency.html.
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