A respected economist (formerly of MIT and Princeton, now of CUNY, Nobel laureate) says he is skeptical of Bitcoin in part because its primary users (i.e., not investors or speculators) are people who want to hide their transactions, which means they are drug dealers, smugglers, tax cheats and others of marginal trustworthiness. Should a synagogue or Jewish charity accept or spend Bitcoin? Let’s hear from a Halachah maven.
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