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Re: This could be big: US Government considering accepting bitcoin payment
by
Yakamoto
on 16/05/2017, 21:56:56 UTC
Homeland Security's US Citizenship and Immigration is now considering accepting bitcoin payment for US Visa application/payment fees

the documents from USCIS.gov website reads:
"USCIS is currently considering issues involving virtual currency such as Bitcoin." related to "the use of bitcoin to transfer investment funds to the new commercial enterprise".

http://www.coindesk.com/us-officials-weigh-bitcoin-payments-eb-5-visa-program/
Well, for Visa programs I can see something like that being useful, but I don't know how much success the US government would be able to find elsewhere since there still isn't a huge (and I mean >0.1% of the population) following for Bitcoin within the US's borders. Other countries (like Venezuela) would be able to make use of this, and the US would likely prefer a system like this too.