Quote from: Arvicco on October 28, 2013, 07:43:13 PM

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... Here's a story recently related to me by a guest at a White House dinner, which included Google's Eric Schmidt: The president, whose most important job is surely to protect the integrity of the monetary system, smugly asked Schmidt if Bitcoin, one of many growing challenges to currency hegemony, was anything he had to worry about. ...

So, Obama has been informed about Bitcoin, but obviously he is still on the "laughing at" stage of Bitcoin learning curve. Let's wait and see how fast he will be progressing...

I don't know. If true, this wasn't a snide comment to a reporter, this was a question asked of Eric Scmidt. I'm very curious about who introduced the topic and in what context.