James Gill: Louisiana’s latest get-rich lottery is in Bitcoin puffery from the Legislature

He made history by inventing Bitcoin; I was just a humble member of that year’s large class of inductees at the Louisiana Political Hall of Fame in Winnfield.

I received the nod in Baton Rouge under my real name but never accumulated enough moola of the folding kind, let alone the digital.

The House of Representatives quickly adopted a resolution authored by state Rep.

The rapid rise of cryptocurrencies has made early investors very rich, but doubters invoke the South Sea Bubble of the 18th century and the Tulip Craze of the 17th to warn of impending disaster.

There have been so many reports of instant millionaires that cryptocurrencies have received the most attention as an investment medium, but they have lately been catching on as a means of exchange.

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