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.
The only thing that's missing in the article is the answer by Eric Schmidt...but the point is: Obama is thinking about bitcoin, probably who introduced it to him was the daily intsums or whatever they're called he gets from the agencies, probably from the FIB because of that whole Silk Road thing.