Sunday, February 15, 2015

"Larry Summers Continuing Campaign To Be First President Of The Bitcoin Central Bank"

From DealBreaker:
The great man thinks that this bitcoin thing—or something like it—has a future; that one day, bitcoin—or something like it that maybe was a little more savvy about things?—will be as ubiquitous as hotel internet or Chase ATMs in Midtown. But if that’s going to happen, it’s going to need a guiding hand, a figurehead whose mere presence puts everyone at ease. Perhaps a former Treasury Secretary and Harvard University president who, if people were a little less goddamned sensitive, would still be Harvard president or chairman of a certain central bank?

Bitcoin or any other payments technology, Mr. Summers said, will need to shed the “hyperlibertarian aura,” which is hindering widespread acceptance. Regulation, he added, would certainly help....MORE