Dutch Pirate Political Party Pays €11,250 Election Fee Alongside Bitcoin
The Dutch Pirate Party (DPP), along alongside 3 other parties, has picked upwardly nineteen declarations of back upwardly from the Netherlands' twenty electoral districts for the upcoming election for the House of Representatives, scheduled to convey house on March 15, 2017.
According to Rotterdam-based tidings organization AD.nl, the DPP paid the required election registration fee (€11,250) alongside bitcoin!
The DPP is straightaway the rootage political political party inwards the Netherlands to consummate such a transaction alongside a digital currency.
While Dutch government produce non conduct convey digital currencies, Michael Dulfer, board fellow member of the Dutch Electoral Council, said DPP’s bitcoin payment was converted to euros at an online cryptocurrency exchange.
Bitcoin beingness accepted past times politicians as well as political parties is nada new. In 2015, US of America Senator Rand Paul accepted bitcoin donations inwards amounts worth upwardly to $100 for his presidential campaign.
And inwards Dec of concluding year, Russian presidential candidate Alexey Navalny raised to a greater extent than than 22 bitcoin inwards displace contributions.
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